- Title
- Enhancing adult therapeutic interpersonal relationships in the acute health care setting: an integrative review
- Creator
- Kornhaber, Rachel; Walsh, Kenneth; Duff, Jed; Walker, Kim
- Relation
- Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare Vol. 9, p. 537-546
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S116957
- Publisher
- Dove Medical Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Therapeutic interpersonal relationships are the primary component of all health care interactions that facilitate the development of positive clinician-patient experiences. Therapeutic interpersonal relationships have the capacity to transform and enrich the patients' experiences. Consequently, with an increasing necessity to focus on patient-centered care, it is imperative for health care professionals to therapeutically engage with patients to improve health-related outcomes. Studies were identified through an electronic search, using the PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and PsycINFO databases of peer-reviewed research, limited to the English language with search terms developed to reflect therapeutic interpersonal relationships between health care professionals and patients in the acute care setting. This study found that therapeutic listening, responding to patient emotions and unmet needs, and patient centeredness were key characteristics of strategies for improving therapeutic interpersonal relationships.
- Subject
- health; acute care; therapeutic interpersonal relationships; relational care integrative review
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1331555
- Identifier
- uon:26655
- Identifier
- ISSN:1178-2390
- Rights
- © 2016 Kornhaber et al. This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
- Language
- eng
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