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You Catch More Flies With Honey: But Patients Shouldn’T Have To Manipulate Nurses To Receive Good Care, Mona Shattell
You Catch More Flies With Honey: But Patients Shouldn’T Have To Manipulate Nurses To Receive Good Care, Mona Shattell
Mona Shattell
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“Nurse Bait:” Strategies Hospitalized Patients Use To Entice Nurses Within The Context Of The Nurse-Patient Relationship, Mona Shattell
“Nurse Bait:” Strategies Hospitalized Patients Use To Entice Nurses Within The Context Of The Nurse-Patient Relationship, Mona Shattell
Mona Shattell
Patients on medical-surgical and psychiatric inpatient units long for more and deeper connections with nurses. Patients’ dependence on the nursing staff, as well as their perceived powerlessness, creates a situation where patients believe they have to actively find ways to seek needed nursing care. This paper will describe active strategies used by medical-surgical patients to entice nurses within the context of the nurse-patient relationship; strategies designed to mitigate vulnerability and increase interpersonal connection. Implications for nursing practice and for Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relations will be presented.