Abstract
MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN of the importance of the relationships within the health team, and between team members and the patient. Saunders points out that the social relationships between the practitioner and his client are an integral and necessary part of practice. He states that, If we are unable to establish a relationship which gives satisfaction to the patient we cannot give good care.(1) Jourard stresses the nurse-patient relationship, taking the position that effective nursing calls for a high degree of interpersonal competence. (2) He believes that anything that interferes with the nurse getting to know the patient as a person interferes with the effectiveness of her
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