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Abstract:
The giving and receiving of gifts, funeral attendance, post-discharge babysitting, usurping of parental roles, indiscriminate sharing of personal information, and other issues prompted a pediatric tertiary care facility in the Midwest to examine intricacies involved in the promotion and maintenance of therapeutic relationships. A multidisciplinary group developed a therapeutic relations decision-making framework to (a) foster a proactive process of conscious deliberation regarding nurse/patient interactions, and (b) afford a nonthreatening mechanism for retrospective review of apparently non-therapeutic relationships. The framework, based upon an "act utilitarian" approach to moral reasoning, promotes the clarification of personal philosophy and values. The framework provides a basis for deliberate, consistent, and confident nursing care delivery and the impetus for developing of new patient and family care initiatives.
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