Exploring Professional Boundaries in AYA Nursing Care
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Jamie Cargill
- Source
- Nursing Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer ISBN: 9783319735542
- Subject
- 030504 nursing
Health professionals
humanities
Therapeutic relationship
03 medical and health sciences
Nursing care
0302 clinical medicine
Professional boundaries
Nursing
Social media
030212 general & internal medicine
Young adult
0305 other medical science
Psychology
- Language
Professional boundaries are central for the establishment of therapeutic relationships for all healthcare professionals yet notably essential for nursing when caring for adolescents and young adults with cancer (AYA). Yet do tensions exist between the balance of involvement that is beneficial in the therapeutic relationship and one that is too close and potentially destructive? Is this challenge a common occurrence in AYA nursing, where prolonged involvement, caring and intimacy form the basis from which nursing care is delivered?