Therapeutic Relations V

In this course, within the context of the Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing’s philosophy and conceptual framework, students will focus on developing the psychiatric nursing role as a team member.

Specific concepts that will be addressed are:

1. Developing and maintaining group process that contributes to positive client outcomes.
• Encouraging clear communication with clients and colleagues
• Facilitating conflict resolution
2. Developing leadership and interpersonal skills to enhance client/nurse interactions.
• Ability to engage clients in short and long-term committments to treatment planning
• Adoption of a client centered care approach
• Utilization of motivational interviewing techniques
• Integration of PSR theory
3. Consolidation of therapeutic communication skills throughout the phases of the nurse- client relationship.
• Demonstrates therapeutic communication with client as individual, family and group
• Demonstrates assertive and accurate communication
• Demonstrates cultural humility and safety
• Demonstrates professional documentation
4. Consolidation of assessment skills and clinical decision-making.
• Demonstrates knowledge to conduct thorough holistic assessments
• Ability to formulate a clinical impression
• Ability to plan client focused care based on assessment data
5. Gain knowledge of the community mental health system through simulated interactions.
• Demonstrates the roles and responsibilities of the RPN in a Community Mental Health Team
• Demonstrates the roles and responsibilities of the RPN at the Access and Assessment Centre
• Demonstrates the roles and responsibilities of the RPN at Acute Home Base Treatment
6. Understanding of DBT skills and its use as a therapeutic modality
• Demonstrates effective teaching of a DBT skill
• Observe a variety of DBT skills

• setting clear, challenging and attainable goals
• encouraging teamwork and sharing of leadership
• facilitating members awareness of their personal contributions to group success
• organizational structures needed to support strong teams

1. Making meetings effective
   • conflict resolution
   • negotiation
   • mediation
   • techniques to improve meetings and help difficult discussions
   • observer reports and process evaluations
2. Therapeutic communication will be enhanced through:
   • understanding and demonstrating the phases of the nurse-client relationship.
   • understanding and demonstration of therapeutic communication with client as individual, family and group.
   • understanding and demonstration of assertive and responsible communication.
   • understanding and demonstration of effective communication with colleagues; requesting and receiving colleague support.
   • 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.