Exploring the student-patient & student-teacher relationship in order to facilitate the therapeutic process?!? Does it benefit the student, the teacher and the patient?

Despite the central role the client-nurse relationship plays in professional practice the relationship between the client and the nursing student receive little attention in nursing research. We consider the client-nurse relationship as the core of nursing practice. But why a specific focus on this relationship and how would you describe this relationship? What are the essential ingredients? And how can we learn these essential ingredients to the students in order that they can use them to strenghten the care user and their families? Can we see the student-teacher relationship as a parallell process of the student-nurse relationship in this learing process? Or not? And what about the involvement of the service user in the training and assessment of mental health nursing students? Can this benefit the student and the patient?status: accepte