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When touch is not the best approach
Author(s) -
DAVIDHIZAR RUTH,
GIGER JOYCE NEWMAN
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1997.tb00305.x
Subject(s) - therapeutic touch , nonverbal communication , value (mathematics) , health professionals , health care , psychology , space (punctuation) , nursing , medicine , communication , computer science , alternative medicine , pathology , machine learning , economics , economic growth , operating system
Summary• Health care professionals have long believed in the value of nonverbal components of communication and the highly significant roles such factors as distance, space, and touch can play in therapeutic relationships. • The value of touch is not appreciated by all health care professionals or considered appropriate or desirable by some patients. • While touch has been described as the most important of all the senses, the astute professional must be cognizant of the times when touch should not be used.