RRL FOREIGN

Patient-centered communication is a basic component of nursing which facilitates the development of a positive nurse-patient relationship and along with other organizational factors, results in the delivery of quality nursing care. (J Clin Nurs. (2004) Nurse-patient
communication: an exploration of patients' experiences Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14687292)

Nurses spend the most time and have most contact with patients, doing connecting work that complements doctors consultations. Nurses provide the glue escorting a patient into the consulting room; identifying with challenges in adhering to lifestyle changes by reporting their own experience; allowing patients to disclose concerns not shared with doctors; being chatty; sharing a joke; and providing explanations where doctors communication has failed.
(Collins, S (2009) Good Communication Helps build a Therapeutic Relationship, Department of Health Sciences and Hull York Medical School, University of York. http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-practice/clinicalzones/educators/good-communication-helps-to-build-a-therapeutic-relationship/5003004.article )

RRL LOCAL

The patient-healthcare professional relationship as perceived by the patient is considered important. It is the interaction that is toward enhancing the client's wellbeing, and the client may be an individual, a family, a group or a community. The patient will experience better health when all their needs are fully considered in the relationship.
(Cruz, JA (2010) The Effectiveness of Therapeutic Relationship Provided the Psychiatric Nurse in Contrast with the Psychiatrist As Perceived by Schizophrenic Patients, Our Lady of Fatima Univertisy, Antipolo, Philippines)

The patients sense of well-being, more importantly for the terminally ill, is nestled in the interaction between nurse and patient. The nurse and patient form a dyad as they interact. (Tejero, LM (2012) Nurse-Patient Dyads: Linking Nurse & Patient Characteristics to Outcome, University of
the Philippines, College of Nursing)

The nurse and patient are self-determining and at the same time communicating individuals who can direct their interactions towards bonding or dissonance. This is consistent with symbolic interactionism which views interaction between persons not in a stimulus-response framework but as a meaningful and purposive interchange. (Tejero, LM
(2012) Nurse-Patient Dyads: Linking Nurse & Patient Characteristics to Outcome, University of the Philippines, College of Nursing)