A nurse enters a client’s room and introduces herself as the nurse who

QUESTION

A nurse enters a client’s room and introduces herself as the nurse who will be taking care of him today. The client discusses with the nurse the fact that he has been sick to his stomach for the last several hours.

After discussing the client’s nausea, the nurse and the client decide that medication might be helpful to alleviate the client symptoms. Which interpersonal process theory focuses on the interpersonal relationship between the client and the nurse and incorporates the orientation, identification, exploitation, and resolution phases?
A) Parse’s Human Becoming Theory
B) Paterson and Zderad’s Humanistic Theory
C) Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations Model
D) Newman’s Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness

ANSWER:

C