Flight to Los Angeles. Crisis at 30,000 feet.

1. Using therapeutic communication, the nurse can begin to assess the individual in crisis, establish rapport, and evaluate the crisis situation. 2.

Horticultural therapy: the garden benefits everyone.

Horticulture therapy (HT) is an applied adjuctive therapy, using plants and gardening materials, to help the client with mental illness to improve social skills, self-esteem, and use of leisure time. HT provides a nonthreatening context for the development of a therapeutic alliance between client and nursing student. HT provides a group experience for the student nurse, allowing the promotion of therapeutic community, assessment of patient status, and management of a therapy session from start to finish via the nursing process.