NURSE - PATIENT RELATIONSHIP – THE HEART OF NURSING WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING: HOW OUR ‘STATES OF MINDS’ AFFECT OUR THINKING AND CREATIVITY IN NURSING, TEAMWORK AND NETWORKING

Abstract

Like doctors and all other healthcare professionals, it is crucial that we as nurses must possess right knowledge, skills and attitudes for the job. This way we can provide good and meaningful care for our patients. Nurses are the only professional care group, who spend the whole of 24 hours directly with patient care. They are in the fore front of the healthcare spectrum and are, therefore, in a central and unique position to determine every patient’s experience while they are in hospital.
As individuals and teams, we are continuously required to collaborate with other disciplines and service providers in the pursuit of excellence in care. But, such developments are doomed to fail unless people have an understanding of the psychoanalytical theories that seek to explain human behaviour. An insight into the dynamics of why and how our own ‘states of minds’ can affect our thinking and behaviour, can help to explain why the same issues are brought forward again and again in the workplace.