May, Carl (1990) Research on nurse-patient relationships: problems of theory, problems of practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 15 (3), 307-315. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.1990.tb01818.x).
Abstract
Research, theoretical and educational literature on interpersonal relations between nurses and patients has proliferated since the 1960s This has generated a range of divergent accounts of what the nurse-patient relationship (NPR) ought to be, how this should be achieved, and how the NPR is constituted in practice In this paper — through a selective review of the literature — the development of two contending perspectives on NPR and on nurse - patient interaction (NPI) characterized as technocratic and contextual, is discussed, and related to the increasingly problematic status of the relationship between nurses and patients in nursing theory and research.
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