Presented by: Beth Fisher, DNP APRN CPNP-AC/PC CPON® CHPPN
Session Details: Day 1: May 13, Session 3 2:00 PM-3:00 PM EDT (1:00 pm CDT / 12:00 pm MDT / 11:00 am PDT)
Overview of Session: This session will explore how for the 23rd consecutive year, results of the Gallop poll find that nursing remains the most trusted profession. Nurses can share intimate, often vulnerable moments with their patients. Patients trust nurses with their vulnerabilities and often share their thoughts, their fears, and sometimes even their secrets with their nurses. Providing a comforting, compassionate, safe, and nurturing environment as patients experience a range of emotions is often at the heart of nursing. As patients and nurses connect in a therapeutic relationship, nurses must establish and maintain professional boundaries. Appropriate professional boundaries build trust and enhance credibility. However, it is possible for professional boundaries between patient and nurse to be breached or violated. What may be intended as a kindness or courtesy may become an unintentional boundary crossing. Such blurring of professional boundaries may occur when nurses confuse their own needs with the needs of their patients. While it is possible to cross a professional boundary intentionally, it more often occurs out of a profound sense of caring for another’s well-being. The difference between a caring professional relationship and an overinvolved relationship is narrow. Knowing the difference and practicing professional boundaries requires intentional professional mentoring and accountability. The American Nurses Association and the National State Board of Nursing have consensus statements on professional boundaries. However, nurses receive very little training on maintaining professional boundaries. Consequences of professional boundary crossing have the potential to lead to increased burnout rates for nurses. By working together through education, role modeling, and an accountability structure, healthy therapeutic relationships may exist between patients and nurses. This session will provide an overview of professional boundaries and educational discussions on techniques to maintain those boundaries while developing and maintaining meaningful, therapeutic, healthy relationships between patients and nurses.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of this presentation, the learner will be able to:
1. Identify standards of care in pediatric practice as it relates to professional boundaries and identify professional boundary expectations as outlined by pediatric-focused professional organizations.
2. Distinguish between intentional and unintentional boundary crossing.
3. Determine methods to integrate healthy professional boundaries into caring and compassionate pediatric healthcare.
4. Discuss equity of care and its relation to necessary professional boundaries in pediatric healthcare.
This contains 1 sections:
- Post-Session Evaluation
Continuing Education Credit
APHON will provide 1 nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) contact hour(s) for the successful completion of this session. Successful completion requires attendance for the entire session and the completion of the post-session evaluation.
The Spring Education Exchange (SEE) sessions and post-session evaluations will be available for 30 days.
The Association for Pediatric Hematology Oncology Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This provider is also approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 14513.
None of the planners for this activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.
Questions or concerns? Contact education@aphon.org.
The APHON Spring Education Exchange is sponsored by ONCC
Course Includes
- 1 Lesson
- Course Certificate