Clinical experience, part II. An approach to a practical case of therapeutic communication

Abstract

Nursing is an eminently humanistic career, based on therapeutic communication. It requires an especial attitude, sensitivity, respect and love for human beings, it’s in this context where we should work as a nurses. This intervention is based on the belief that to do our work therapeutic and significant to our patients, it must take into account which is the meaning of the disease for each person and comforted him or her in an active process to find together new behaviours more constructives for the person. This work is a real theoric and practice case, what it happened in a hospital, specifically in a Cardiology Unit, with a woman who had a myocardial infarction. We can find in this conversation deep emotions and feelings, she has taken stock of the events related to the MI and she consider her future after it. The work has two communicative interventions, first of them is developed in this article, we analize patient's fears and its implications. In the second part, we discuss more subjects, the aims were to know if fears were resolved, strategies were put on practice, evaluate her self-esteem and training her to become self-sufficient for her own care.

Keywords

• Relación de ayuda
• Enfermería
• Intervención comunicativa