title: Nurse self-awareness in therapeutic relationships.
abstract: Each individual comes into nursing with personal motivations, values, beliefs, and unresolved family-of-origin issues that can impact on therapeutic relationships with families that nurses care for. Possible underlying motives that may impact a nurse's ability to sustain a therapeutic relationship appropriately are described.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Jerome
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Ferraro-McDuffie
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009042:Motivation; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D012649:Self Concept; D012933:Social Identification