Therapeutic communication

Therapeutic Communication Student’s Name Institution Course # and Name Professor’s Name Date Therapeutic communication techniques among nurses and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNPs) because of their different areas and scope of practice. Therapeutic techniques, including reflecting, demonstrate the healthcare professional’s active listening capabilities. Nurses' therapeutic communication techniques entail patient observation, review, and assessment management. On the contrary, PMHNPs employ this technique to facilitate patient observation and diagnosis and make treatment recommendations. Lack of active listening is a prerequisite for misdiagnosis and incomplete patient data (American Nurses Association & American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 2022). Therefore, whereas the therapeutic communication techniques among nurses augment the effective patient evaluation, PMHNPs use them to achieve an accurate diagnosis and make effective treatment suggestions. One aspect of verbal therapeutic communication is the use of words. The overall goal of the therapeutic alliance is to ensure the delivery of quality medical services to patient...