Nursing is a science and an art (Appleton, 1993). To become a nurse one must gain scientific knowledge and understanding of the human body in order to care for their patients; this is done in the classroom. More importantly though a nurse must possess the ability to care, so they can provide top care for their patients. Clinical settings allow this learning to happen as one gets to experience how important a caring partnership between the patient and nurse is (Finfgeld-Connentt, 2008). A nurse needs to have the ability to skillfully and morally take a course of action to care for their patient, while intertwining a sensitive and intimate connection with them (Finfgeld-Connett, 2008). When this is achieved both the patient and nurse will feel …show more content…
Nurses should possess all of these behaviors and more when working with a patient, therefore caring in nursing practice is a top priority. As a nurse, one should be focused on the patient and helping them reach a level of harmony, they cannot be treated as objects (Arslan-Ozkan, 2013). The patient is the central factor in caring, and should be treated with integrity. A holistic, humanistic view of treating the patient should be taken (Appleton, 1993). Forming an intimate and mutually respectful relationship with your patient will put them at ease and allow you to provide them with the best care. There is an art to caring that should be applied to nursing where one uses scientific knowledge and their values as a caring human and accommodates care to meet a patients needs (Finfgeld-Connett, …show more content…
The nurse can now empathize with the patient and gain an understanding of their experience; enabling the nurse to individualize a care plan for their patient (Appleton, 1993). With trust in the nurse the patient believes the nurse has their best interest at heart and will be open to information they are given. Also the nurse believes in the patient and that they will take the information given and commit to making him or herself better (Appleton, 1993). In order for the patient-nurse relationship to reach this level the nurse must put in the time to get to know the patient and give their best when they are with the patient (Appleton, 1993). This shows the patient that as a nurse you truly care for their
As a nurse, it is important to address the needs of a patient during care. These needs are unique to each individual and personalizing it, enable the patients to feel truly cared about. It is important to be educated about these needs as the patients and their families look to you as a guide; therefore, education on things w...
The purpose of this paper is to present a personal belief about the metaparadigm of nursing and to incorporate it into that of Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring.
Nursing is both a profession and discipline. The terms profession and discipline are interchangeable in Nursing and education today. Profession comes from Latin meaning, “Public declaration ("utc.edu," 2014, p. 4). This is the drive for nurses to have the commitment of caring for patients. Discipline, also a Latin word means both teaching and knowledge. Thus, providing nurses the need for knowledge to care and teach patients. There are many different frameworks which nurses go and learn by. Otterbein’s tapestry of caring contains six components that are intermixed into the education that we pride ourselves as nursing students on. The mission, values and purpose of the education given to students, prepare them for their nursing profession can be based on the following: caring, commitment, compassion, conscience, confidence, competence and conduct.
Since the institution of nursing was first established, care has remained the primary component. Being able to provide care to patients on an emotional level is another example of the distinctive power that nurses uphold. Generally, the nurse is the predominant choice of the patient when he/she must determine who best to confer with or share personal thoughts or concerns with, as well as who the patient trusts most with management of their own well-being. This form of day-to-day, intimate patient-nurse relationship is a powerful component of
In addition to the complete blood count the doctor had also ordered new electrolytes to be drawn up that day. Electrolytes are ions that are present in the human body and require a particular balance in order for cells to function normally (Pagana & Pagana, 2010). The electrolytes the doctor ordered included, sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, phosphate and magnesium (Pagana & Pagana, 2010). From these findings only sodium, an electrolyte involved in fluid regulation, pH balance and muscle contractions was found to be elevated (Pagana & Pagana, 2010). At five days post-op her sodium level was mildly high at 148mmol/l and on the date of my care it was 150mmol/l, higher than the normal of 137-145mmol/l.
Caring in the field of nursing is a very important aspect. The nurse should always care for their patient on a personal level. I have no nursing experience at all, so I can not say that I have actual experience caring for a person in a hospital. On the other hand, I have been involved in many instances where I had to stick out a helping hand.
Caring is the biggest aspect in the nursing field. Aspiring nurses choose to become nurses because they want to care for people in ways that most professions cannot do. Without caring nursing would not be the field it is today. The culture of caring involves intervening programs that help to build caring behaviors among nurses. As nurses become stressed and become down on their life it has shown that caring for oneself before others is key in caring for patients. Lastly, throughout the years many theorists have proven that caring has come from many concepts and ideas that relate directly to ICU nursing.
Nurses are an equally important part of each client’s life. Nurses provide stable care to each client, answers their questions, gives medications and treatments, and assists with medical procedures. They also have the responsibility to explain to clients and family members what they should and should not do as they go through treatment and recovery. Nurses must quickly respond to patients needs. Every individual nurse has his or her own unique way of caring. There are so many ways to show caring that the possibilities are never ending. Nurse’s support, comfort, and help allow the patients to recover to the best of their ability. Their experiences in dealing with different patients that have unique situations on a daily basis helps the nurses become better caregivers. Therefore, every nurse is capable of demonstrating care in their respective environments.
Next, there is person that is to be cared for. A person is someone who needs nursing care. A person is made up of many parts including their mind, spirituality, and their body. The nurse is responsible for caring for all of these parts as considering the whole person is essential to facilitate healing. The nurse may also need to care for the patient’s family and the community. The family being in a healthy emotional state may be what is necessary for the patient’s improvement. Caring for the community can help prevent disease and screen for diseases. Preventing and early detection allows for quicker healing
The concept of caring goes beyond the simple dictionary definition of being concerned for, especially in the field of nursing. Arnold and Boggs defines caring as “an intentional human action characterized by commitment and a sufficient level of knowledge and skill to allow you to support the basic integrity” of the client (2014). In other words, caring is a sincere act performed by a nurse or anyone who contains the ability to do those actions. Swanson states that caring, in terms of nursing, consist of five components; knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, and maintaining belief (Smith 2012). Knowing it about being open-minded and trying to understand a situation from the client’s point of view. Being with is simply just being present for the client and making him/she not feel alone. Doing for is advocating, basically doing what the client would have done if he/she could have done it. Enabling is to encourage the client to try to return to their normal self and be as independent as possible. Maintaining belief is trying to keep the client’s confidence and hope alive while he/she is trying to go through the situation. These components help a nurse to provide a quality sense of caring to a patient. Caring is essential especially to someone in need because human beings are social beings that need the support
Many persons go into the healthcare ground because they want to work with people. For these nurses, it is the nurse-patient relationship that is one of the most significant things. By understanding the nurse-patient relationship, nurses can be better furnished to work with their patients and, eventually, deliver superior care for them. Hildegard Peplau's model of nursing emphases on that nurse-patient relationship and recognizes the diverse roles nurses take on when working with patients.
When a nurse is providing patient care, he/she creates a safe environment for the patient and enables the choice to establish a relationship on a human to human interaction or on a transpersonal level. The patient will be acknowledged as a person with the wholeness of their soul despite their illness or number on the bed. The ten carative factors in this theory are used as an education tool for nurses around the world and should be applied to the different care situations in practice. Nurses use the factors to promote growth in themselves and within the patient. A nurse should respect the patient’s decisions and take the time to fully be present in the moments with the patient. A lot of nurses complain about the time limitations they have and do not provide the necessary amount of time to listen and gather the patient’s perspective of the situation. Another way this theory can be applied to practice is by recognizing the caring moment between you and the patient. This will determine how the relationship will
The commitment to know another as a caring person to nurse him or her is the challenge unique to the field of nursing. Both patients and nurses have expectations about the nature and importance of the caring relationship. Medications can be given out, tasks off a worklist can be performed, however, no nursing has been given without a specific intent to care. Genuine nursing is caring, and without caring, there is no nursing.
Communication is an important concept of caring in nursing because the nurse has to know how to communicate efficiently in order to get the patient to trust the nurse enough to open up to the nurse and also the nurse needs to communicate respectfully to show the patient that they genuinely do care about their health and want to help them as much as they
Conclusively, caring is an essential pillar in the nursing profession because it provides many aspects on how to interact with patients in regards to culture and believes. Further, communication, critical thinking, professionalism and holism are Conceptual Framework Pillars that are significant in the nursing field to provide an adequate quality care, but caring is a fundamental pillar that is enhanced by interactions with the patients. Finally, caring combines empathy, altruism, integrity, human dignity, autonomy, compassion, sensitivity and safety to provide an outstanding high quality care.