Have you been in a hospital and had an extremely rude nurse assigned to you? Or was your hospital experience with a kind and understanding nurse? Depending on the type of nurse that was assigned to you, your hospital experience could be extremely different. Based on personal experience, I became closer to my nurse that was caring and compassionate. The nurse who was extremely rude made it hard to connect with her. She would walk in, do what she had to do, and then walk right back out. Having an empathetic or a caring nurse could make your hospital stay much more pleasurable. By having a good quality of care during a hospital stay can give the hospital good review, can help maintain what the hospital is doing, and makes the nurses, doctors, and the especially the patient feel good.
In an interview with Diane Carli, my grandmother, she stated that she has had both excellent and not so good hospital stays. “When I had my second knee replacement, the hospital staff was just amazing. They would come in and make sure that I was comfortable. If I wasn’t, they would ask what it would take to help” (Carli). When she said this, I thought of when I had my outpatient surgery and how even though I was only in the recovery room for an hour, they were still very attentive and that made me feel so much better. Having compassionate work staff should
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“Pain…no more…Barbara…do something…God, let me go” (Huttmann 113). Throughout the story, Barbara talks about how all she wanted was for Mac’s doctor to put in a “no code” order. The reason she wanted the “no code” order is because Mac had been resuscitated fifty-two times in one month. Barbara shows the true form of compassion when she tells Mac that she’ll stop pressing the resuscitate button and injected him with pain
Although nurses do not wield the power of doctors in hospital settings, they are still able to effectively compensate for a doctor’s deficits in a variety of ways to assure patient recovery. Nurses meet a patient’s physical needs, which assures comfort and dignity Nurses explain and translate unfamiliar procedures and treatments to patients which makes the patient a partner in his own care and aids in patient compliance. Nurses communicate patient symptoms and concerns to physicians so treatment can be altered if necessary and most importantly, nurses provide emotional support to patients in distress.
Nurses are caring by nature. Nurses care for family members while at home, community members who may be neighbors, church members or friends from school and sports with children in common; however, nurses are known to display uncaring attitudes towards each other. When nurses are discourteous and disrespectful towards one another this may be known as workplace incivility. Incivility is defined by Merriam-Webster as, “the quality of state of being uncivil and a rude or discourteous act” (n.d.). Alexander (2017) related incivility to the events of the 2016 United States election as “rude and impolite behaviors that may be manifested when people feel fear or mistrust” (p. 79). Healthcare is subject to the same negative influence through communication between healthcare providers, educators and patients.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issue of incivility in nursing and how this affects the work environment, the importance that this has in the microsystem and the nursing profession and how suggestions on how to create healthy work atmosphere through my advanced practice in the family nurse practitioner field.
...rking in the hospitals all across the nation, and employing confident employees to those positions will make a large impact on how well people are treated in medical facilities. Every nurse should follow procedure and focus on the job at hand—healing people.
In most aspects of life the saying “less is always more” may ring true; however when it comes to providing quality care to patients, less only creates problems which can lead to a decrease in patient’s quality of life as well as nurse’s satisfaction with their jobs. The massive shortage of nurses throughout the United States has gotten attention from some of the most prestigious schools, news media and political leaders. Nurses are being burnt out from their jobs, they are being overworked and overlooked. New nurses are not being properly trained, and old nurses are on their way to retirement. All the while the rate of patient admissions is on the rise. Nurses are reporting lower satisfaction in their job positions and hospital retention rates are at an all-time low, conversely this is affecting all patients’ quality of care. As stated in the article Addressing The Nurse Shortage To Improve The Quality Of Patient Care “According to an Institute of Medicine report, Nurses are the largest group of health care professionals providing direct patient care in hospitals, and the quality of care for hospital patients is strongly linked to the performance of nursing staff”.
Skills that a nurse may need to ensure that individuals are treated fairly and the care that they need is specific to them include; a good listener, this makes sure that the patient applies trust in you as a nurse and trusts you to help them in their time of need. Reliable, this helps the patient to have trust within you and this may help them with day to day lifestyle choices and could boost self-esteem. Good communication skills, this will ensure that the patient gets a say in the care that they receive and they have the right to refuse treatment, although this is not the case in some cases.
Unprofessional Conduct according to the Arkansas State Board of Nursing is detailed in ASBN Rules and Regulations, Chapter 7, Section XV, #6. The section states the following conduct are considered unprofessional. Failing to assess, evaluate, and intervene, Incorrect documentation, Missappropriation of residents property, Medication and Treatment errors, Performing or attempting to perform procedures that the nurse is untrained to do, Violating confidentiality. Neglect/Abuse or failure to report these incidents, Failing to report violations or attempted violations to the ASBN, Inappropriate delegation of duties, Failing to supervise, Practicing when unfit.
Kret, D. (2011). The Qualities of a Compassionate Nurse According to the Perceptions Of Medical-Surgical Patients. Medsurg Nursing, 20(1), 29-36.
Hospitality is a major part of working a hospital. I feel we need to generous and friendly to everyone that we come in contact with. This includes the patients, their families, and fellow co-workers. Those that end up in the hospital are usually there because there is something wrong with them that renders them incapable of taking care of themselves. Our job is to not only to treat them but to take care of them as though they are our own family. We need to be generous and tend to their needs whether they be medical, spiritual, emotional, or physical within reason. We want the patients to take care of themselves as much as possible in order to maintain their independence and dignity. Being friendly to the patients and family will help them to relax. Being in the hospital as a patient or the family of the patient is very stress inducing and they need us to be an advocate for them and try to help them to keep a level head. In some cases, we are all the patients have and we need to make sure that we have a “friendship” with
Firstly, Nurses must develop the right communication tools when dealing with their patients. For example most nurses do bedside reporting, before they change their shift in the morning, therefore they would be relaying information to the other nurse about the patient they dealt with during the night. The nurse that is going off shift would give a report to the incoming nurse in the presence of the patient. He or she has to discuss the condition of the patient, medications and the procedures so the next nurse would be on the same level. Most nurses in the General Hospital do their reporting by the bedside of their patients.
This is one of the values that is of the utmost importance when being a nurse. We must have compassion for our patients. We as nurses will make an impact every single day in the lives of people in our community. We need to realize that we are the voice of the voiceless and the advocates for those who cannot advocate for themselves. You realize that even by helping one person, you are making a difference and are making the world a better place one patient at a time. Some of us may enter the field and some of us may be continuing on in our education, but we all share one thing in common, we are all nurses and we all made
“Social ethics is moral rightness and goodness in the shaping of human society” (Fowler 2). Provision one is the definition of this quote, the nurse, in all professional relationships, practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth and uniqueness of every individual, unrestricted by considerations of social or economic status, personal, attributes, or the nature of health problems. The nurses at chestnut park have this provision down to a T. No matter what state their resident is in, they treat them as if they were still in their prime. Every nurse practices compassion for their resident when feeding, washing, dressing or toileting. Even when the resident is giving them a difficult time they keep their cool and try to work through the problem with them. One thing that I observed when I was
In less stressful environment, nurses able to incorporate caring relationship, improve interactions between patient and a nurse, and develop understanding of the other person’s perspective (Nicely, K, Sloane, D., Aiden, L., 2012).
Being a nurse comes with a lot of responsibility. You need to be kind and able to
A nurse, who is knowledgeable and confident, respectful and trustworthy, who has a personal approach for each of the patients and advocate for them, who can put herself or himself in the patients’ place, is a caring nurse. Of course, it is not very easy and there are many challenges, but if the nurses can work hard and always try to provide the best caring experience, they can succeed and be professionally satisfied. There is also another question that I couldn’t find the answer yet: how do we measure the caring? Is there any way we can know that we provide enough care? This can be the topic of my future