implementing effective nursing performance in the matter of communication that encourages patient compliance in TB treatment should help refine the knowledge base of care-delivery protocols in ways that may help remit the effects of today's TB epidemic.
The importance of communications skills in nursing practice has received increased attention in recent years. The emergence of the terms patient-centered care and relationship-centered care to describe a focus on the psychological and cultural as well as purely physical concerns of patients and their families is instructive because of the implicit enlargement of the concept of health care to include both patient and family. Yoder-Wise uses patient-centered care (1999, p. 356). However, Williams, et al. (2000), point out a growing preference for the latter term because of the potential for confusion about where the responsibility for and authority over case treatment practices. To put it another way, case control continues to reside with physicians. Williams, et al., also refer to the "biopsychosocial mo
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