Travelbee’s theory remains significant in providing a framework to describe the human encounter between nurses and patients who are suffering from life-threatening illness or a long, debilitating disease course.

To deal with pain and suffering, a nurse has to establish nurse- patient interaction by getting to know the patient, by becoming involve, by ascertaining needs, and by fulfilling the purpose of nursing, which is to alleviate suffering and to help people find meaning in a situation. This happen to one of our patient in ICU, with breast cancer with lung metastasis, upon receiving the patient from the previous shift, you have to greet the patient then you have introduce yourself, telling her that you are the nurse assigned for her today. Upon assessment with my patient, I wonder why, what makes this patient agitated from the previous shift and the past few days, she was been on restraint for the reason that she tries to pull her endotracheal tube and other invasive contraptions she has. Being a nurse it’s my responsibility to know the patient well, what does she really want to make her at ease, despite of the repositioning and starting of sedations, the patient remains uncomfortable, and the reason why, is that she wants to remove/ release her restraint , upon released, she tries to mobilized herself on bed and position to high fowler’s position, and upon observing her she was relieved from suffering, she was comfortably sleeping on bed and she obeys command. I believe that communicating and establishing rapport well to our patient, is a process that enables to build a relationship, understanding their sufferings and to be trusted with our tender loving care, in this way we can fulfill our purpose as a nurse.