'Them' and 'us.' (psychiatric nurse's social relationship with a patient)
Article Abstract:
A nurse describes her mixed feelings when, as a student psychiatric nurse, one of her patients asked her out to lunch. Recognising the courage it took for the patient to ask her out, she forgot any notion that she was exploiting the professional relationship and accepted. The incident made the nurse, who subsequently married her patient, realise that staff should not treat psychiatric patients as a species apart.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1992
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Dances with pigs
Article Abstract:
A nurse tells of the breakthrough in her relationship with a 14-year-old girl patient who was undergoing radiotherapy for a brain tumour. The nurse failed to establish more than a superficial relationship with her teenaged patient until she felt a sudden urge to do a dance round the room wearing the girl's huge 'piggy' slippers. This made the teenager laugh and she and the nurse became firm friends.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1992
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Space to speak
Article Abstract:
A nurse recounts a memorable moment with a female patient in her care who was dying. The patient feels able to tell the nurse how she feels about her illness and its impact on her family, while the nurse remembers the encounter because she felt that she had allowed herself to care and not protected her own feelings.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1992
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