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Research on nurse‐patient relationships: problems of theory, problems of practice
Author(s) -
BScEcon Carl May
Publication year - 1990
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 - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1990.tb01818.x
Subject(s) - technocracy , interpersonal communication , interpersonal relationship , nursing , nursing practice , psychology , nursing theory , medicine , medline , social psychology , political science , politics , law
Research, theoretical and educational literature on interpersonal relations between nurses and patients has proliferated since the 1960s This has generated a range of divergent accounts of what the nurse‐patient relationship (NPR) ought to be, how this should be achieved, and how the NPR is constituted in practice In this paper — through a selective review of the literature — the development of two contending perspectives on NPR and on nurse ‐ patient interaction (NPI) characterized as technocratic and contextual , is discussed, and related to the increasingly problematic status of the relationship between nurses and patients in nursing theory and research