Therapeutic Relations IV
Overview
Therapeutic communication issues related to cultural competence will continue to be developed. Professional documentation and sharing of information in the context of client, as individual and family will be introduced. All concepts will be linked to the Professional Standards for Psychiatric Nursing and the Douglas College Conceptual Framework.
Therapeutic communication will be introduced through:
- Understanding and demonstrating the phases of the nurse-client relationship, and goals of the interview and the link to the nursing process
- Demonstrating of foundational skills such as empathy, engagement and blending
- Demonstrating the principles and steps in managing challenging behaviours including resistance and conflict resolution
- Understanding and demonstration of assertive and responsible communication
- Demonstration of understanding of theory and concepts through simulated clinical examples
- Understanding of cultural competence and the issues of professional documentation and sharing of client information for the client as individual and family
Experiential communication formats are used, including interactive communication scenarios, video critiquing and participative self-awareness exercises.
The course evaluation is consistent with Douglas College evaluation policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course.
This is a graded course.
Students will have the opportunity to develop and practice the therapeutic communication skills of advanced empathy, therapeutic confrontation and immediacy. Student learning will focus on effective communication with distressed and aggressive clients experiencing episodic health challenges. Students will continue to develop cultural competencies as it relates to therapeutic communication and the client as individual and family.
A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of each semester.
Please note that access and use of electronic resources is expected.
Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
| Institution | Transfer details for PNUR 3421 |
|---|---|
| Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | No credit |
Course Offerings
Winter 2025
| CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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CRN
14475
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Thu Fri | Instructor last name
Steele
Instructor first name
Lisa
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Course status
Open
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PNUR 3421 001 is restricted to BSPN Students. One section for registration. Students will be assigned to groups by course instructors.
Registration in this course provides registrants with a 'time conflict' error. This error can be disregarded for this course as it is due to a required room booking overlap.