Understanding patients’ lived experiences: the interrelationship of rhetoric and hermeneutics

Understanding each patient's situation or lived experience evolves from a nurse's sincere communication with the patient. Through rhetoric, the nurse's use of competent language and expressions is more likely to engage the patient in a dialogical discussion that brings forth an open,...

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Main Author: Finch, Linda P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2004
In: Nursing philosophy
Year: 2004, Volume: 5, Issue: 3, Pages: 251-257
Further subjects:B rhetorical–hermeneutical relationship
B Rhetoric
B Hermeneutics
B nurse–patient communication
B knowing the patient
B nurse–patient relationship
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