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When your patient is silent
Author(s) -
Davidhizar Ruth,
Giger Joyce Newman
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1994.20040703.x
Subject(s) - silence , meaning (existential) , interpersonal communication , psychology , interpersonal relationship , social psychology , nursing , medicine , psychotherapist , aesthetics , art
In the process of caring for patients, nurses encounter patients who are silent A number of problems may arise when silence occurs in an interpersonal situation Among these problems is the different meanings that silence may have from culture to culture This paper describes the meaning that silence may have across cultures and delineates guidelines for the nurse in responding to the patient who is silent