The Importance Of The Holistic Nursing Approach

Lee said that he doesn’t like to eat alone but he has his best friend that he lives with in his shared housing. If Sam said no he would still be able to eat, it wouldn’t be as if he had no one to eat with and therefore would skip the meal due to that he hates eating alone. The holistic nursing approach is treating a patient through a person centred care approach which thinks about the nursing care as a whole not just one part of the body but social, physical, spiritual and psychological (The American Holistic Nurses Association 2016). With Sam basing the care on a holistic care approach she could say yes to dinner so that she is making sure that Lee is having the right nutrition and that he has someone to talk to as his friend may not always

A perception is an idea of what a person believes when they have experienced or seen an event happen, it is when people make assumptions based on the content that they have seen (Maund 2014, p. 149). If the general public were to see Sam and Lee out for dinner they might make assumptions that they are on a date with each other and for the general public that do not agree with same sex equality can make rumours and that will stop patients coming to the GP clinic. If Sam and Lee were out at dinner and another healthcare worker or a community resident was to capture the event happening on their social media page it could make for a massive rumour. Social media sites have the risk of violating the personal and professional boundaries; it takes away the privacy of an individual. It shows ideas that can be misguided by what is being seen (Ventola 2014, p. 495).by introducing social media to the situation it can be misguided by what has been seen, people can also make the assumption that something is occurring when it has not and by making assumptions it turns into a

By relating these views to a clinical scenario about a nurse a patient who were going to have a meal together after the healthcare professional had finished work. By arguing the different views it has lead me to believe that because the nurse treated the be overstepping the boundaries that have been made for important reasons. This scenario has been left to any interpretation and therefore the details of what had happened and what could happen are very vague. As I am going to move into my career as a newly graduated registered nurse when situations such as this one occurs I need to ask myself if I am steeping outside of a boundary, think about all of the parties that are involved and if I had seen it from another person would I believe that it is ethically wrong. As the patient in this situation is the next door neighbour of the nurse there are many questions that need to be answered such as did they have a relationship before he was receiving treatment at the GP clinic and did he know that Sam was on duty at the clinic. In the scenario it has no classification of where the GP clinic is whether it is in a country town or in the city, as both of these surroundings are different, in a country town everyone is close and this dilemma could just be that they are friends and would like to have tea together but in the city the assumption is that