The nurse-patient relationship: historical, methodological and therapeutic identity in nursing cares

Introduction: The nurse-patient relationship allows the development of the nursing care, being the context in which there is an interaction between nurse and patient, executing a care plan by nurse to achieve health results. Objective: Reflect about the identity and importance of the nurse-patient relationship in nursing care. Method: Reflective and theoretical analysis about the fundamental, methodological and clinical identity of the nurse-patient relationship in nursing care. Result: The discussion argues the interest of the nurse-patient relationship as an object of study from the beginning of the discipline, as well as its importance in all the methodological processes that underlie nursing care, and its therapeutic consequences on the patient's health situation. Conclusion: The importance and presence of the nurse-patient relationship identify it as a basic pillar of the nursing cares comprehensive development.