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Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to know an inventory to evaluate help relationship dimensions and it validation to portuguese nursing students
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to understand how important nursing teachers must to be helping professionals with students
Methods: It is a quantitative study in which we used Relationship Inventory from Barrett-Lennard (BLRI) in Forms: OS-40-TP and MO-
Results: With teacher relationship we found positive mean values for level of regard, empathic understanding and unconditionality. A negative mean for congruence. With a patient interaction, the four help relationship dimensions show us positive mean values. Level of regard and empathic understanding show significant statistic differences regarding sex and year of course .
Conclusion: BLRI indicate to be a good assessment instrument to evaluate some fundamental aspects of experience in a help relationship through out four dimensions. In both scales used in this study reliability coefficients are 0.74. Concerning teacher relationship, students think that they have a lower level of congruence. On patient relationship all the dimensions have higher mean values which demonstrate that students establish better help relationships with patients and they doesn’t think the same about teachers with themselves. In clinical practice help relationship is a nurse’s competence and we must adequate nursing education in order to promote help relationship competence, and to prepare students to be good help professionals.