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How can nurses make a difference in the health of their patients?

Donna Hill Howes, RN
Donna Hill Howes, RN
Family Practitioner
Registered Nurses are uniquely educated and skilled to improve the health of their patients in every situation where they interact with clients/patients. RNs bring to the therapeutic relationship their health care knowledge, psychomotor skills and their personal attributes and experiences. They interact with the client to facilitate the establishment of mutually approved goals. They apply appropriate doses of strategies and techniques to assist the client to achieve those goals and reinforce new skills and behaviours to maintain those goals. The RN is then changed by the client as well. Their interaction becomes part of her/his experience to be applied to the next RN/client interaction. These concepts are an accumulation of ideas and teaching from many nurse theorists and experts over my years in this profession.

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