The Relationship Form specifies nurse and client behav- iours at each phase of the nurse-client relationship Forchuk & Brown (1989) found the lnter-rater reliability within one point to be 91%, and where disagreement existed, a clinical nurse specialist consistently rated the relationship one point higher than the nurse m the relationship For the current study, the nurse in the relationship validated the determination of the duration of the onentation phase with a clinical nurse specialist who was blmd to other measures