Summary: According to Kristen M. Swanson (RN, PhD, FAAN), the sixth dean of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing and Associate Chief Nursing Officer for Academic Affairs at UNC Hospitals, proposed on her article “Empirical Development Of a Middle Range Theory of Caring (1991)” that the study of inductively derived and validated a middle-range theory of caring through phenomenological investigation in three separate perinatal contexts demonstrate not only the definition of caring, but also illustrate five caring processes or categories in nursing. These executed simultaneous processes are knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, and maintain belief. The first process, knowing, is striving to recognize an event as it has in the life of the
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According to Mayeroff (1971), to care the other is to help them grow and actualized themselves. This notation supports the importance of enabling process through transition time. The last process or category in caring is maintaining belief. It involves sustaining faith in the other’s and enhancing esteem to get through an event or transition and face the foreseeable with meaning based on demands, constraints, and resources of the other’s life. Once again, Nodding (1984) supported the ideal of these as perfection; nurse should be sensitive to this idea and have to take an action to promote that ideal. All in all, the inductively derived definition from five processes of caring is “a nurturing way of relating to a valued other toward whom one feels a personal sense of commitment and responsibility” which congruence with Watson’s factors and Banner’s helping role who emphasized that caring is a fundamental and unify nursing phenomenon. With its validation through the development process, caring will be applicable to guide intervention or nursing care to promote health, eventually to enhance healing and to support the understanding in human experiences of health and …show more content…
Do nurse need to go beyond the patient-centered care concept? 3. How you apply caring into your area of interest?
Application: To serve the needs of our growing older adult’s population, all health care providers, especially nurses emphasize on caring, which is the essence value to promote quality of life. Some people may believe that high-technology will transform care for older adults. However, I personally believe that nursing care is more imperative than the technological and curative elements of care. Technological and medicinal advancements is curative only superficial problems of older adults; hence, if you depend on hi-technology, the low-touch will become in caring. Nurses take the prominent role in caring because nurses provide care not only by using technological knowledge, but also by using the understanding of other’s experiences, feelings, and stories through their illness trajectories. Nurses should integrate technological and practical knowledge with caring by head, hand, and heart. These integral knowledge of caring are beyond to patient-centered care which is called humanized care. I strongly believe that nurses should develop the humanized care approaches which integrate practical know-how with empathic understanding and technological knowledge to provide humane and sensitive care. Older adults need an integrative knowledge-based care; consequently, caring by nurses being knowledgeable is essential to older
According to Mayeroff (1971), to care the other is to help them grow and actualized themselves. This notation supports the importance of enabling process through transition time. The last process or category in caring is maintaining belief. It involves sustaining faith in the other’s and enhancing esteem to get through an event or transition and face the foreseeable with meaning based on demands, constraints, and resources of the other’s life. Once again, Nodding (1984) supported the ideal of these as perfection; nurse should be sensitive to this idea and have to take an action to promote that ideal. All in all, the inductively derived definition from five processes of caring is “a nurturing way of relating to a valued other toward whom one feels a personal sense of commitment and responsibility” which congruence with Watson’s factors and Banner’s helping role who emphasized that caring is a fundamental and unify nursing phenomenon. With its validation through the development process, caring will be applicable to guide intervention or nursing care to promote health, eventually to enhance healing and to support the understanding in human experiences of health and …show more content…
Do nurse need to go beyond the patient-centered care concept? 3. How you apply caring into your area of interest?
Application: To serve the needs of our growing older adult’s population, all health care providers, especially nurses emphasize on caring, which is the essence value to promote quality of life. Some people may believe that high-technology will transform care for older adults. However, I personally believe that nursing care is more imperative than the technological and curative elements of care. Technological and medicinal advancements is curative only superficial problems of older adults; hence, if you depend on hi-technology, the low-touch will become in caring. Nurses take the prominent role in caring because nurses provide care not only by using technological knowledge, but also by using the understanding of other’s experiences, feelings, and stories through their illness trajectories. Nurses should integrate technological and practical knowledge with caring by head, hand, and heart. These integral knowledge of caring are beyond to patient-centered care which is called humanized care. I strongly believe that nurses should develop the humanized care approaches which integrate practical know-how with empathic understanding and technological knowledge to provide humane and sensitive care. Older adults need an integrative knowledge-based care; consequently, caring by nurses being knowledgeable is essential to older