This can be met by communicating with patients about their beliefs and values and empowering them to make decisions (Clark and Phillips 2010). By being inquisitive nurses should document the information that is specific to the patient (Watts, 2011). With a better understanding and knowledge of the patients needs it can aid to provide person centred care. The Person-Centred Nursing Framework (McCormack and McCance 2010) reinforces that beliefs and values in the perquisites are important as it provides an attachment between the nurse and patient which is vital for excellent person centred care (McCormack et al., 2010)…
Subsequently, I have to establish a relationship with the patient. The relationship should keep the religious beliefs of the individual or family into account to avert any conflicts. In addition to this, I have to establish the spiritual needs of the patient. As explicated by Nixon, Narayanasamy and Penny (2013), supporting the spiritual needs of a patient and their families helps nurses to provide the necessary support. After solidifying the relationship, I can start teaching the patient on the important of their health and how conventional medicine is helpful in ensuring their health and wellbeing.…
This knowledge enhanced to make care plan more patient centered. The care provider had to change their whole thought process to accommodate this evolution in care. In an article titled Patient Centeredness, Cultural Competence and Healthcare Quality the author’s emphasis a quote from Lipkin in 1984 which states “practitioners who are patient centered have specific knowledge, attitudes, and skills” (Somnath Saha, Mary Catherine Beach, Lisa A. Cooper, 2008). Nowadays, the process of understanding the patient needs begins the minute the healthcare provider's eyes are laid upon them. Nurses are designed to observe and use various techniques of communication to aide in discoveries to help evaluate health issues as well as emotional wellbeing.…
Nursing is compassionate care of other human-beings when they are sick. We are the work of God’s sacred work, by caring and loving others in times of needs. A healing hospital needs to have several components. These components includes basic needs from the patients and technology. When patients are admitted to the hospital, that becomes their home for the duration of the stay; therefore, it is vital that the hospital promote a “home” feeling for them to promote healing.…
Nursing is about making others feel comfortable, safe, and satisfied. Like I mentioned before, patient centered care is all about the relationship between the patient and the health care provider with the goal of enhancing the wellbeing of the patient (Boykins, 2014). The main priority of nurses is to improve the health of the patient. To achieve this, the nurse must first build a good relationship with the patient, establish trust, and build confidence. In other words, nursing practice is all about centering their care on the patient and improving the patient’s emotional and physical state.…
In this essay my main focus and topic will be person-centred care. I will describe and define what it is and discuss the importance of developing skills and knowledge as a student nurse that I must adapt throughout my training. I will also look into professional and governed bodies that guide student and qualified nurses to a high standard and rules and regulations they set out to give the best possible care and best evidence practice care to patients. I will also look into the history of person-centred care and how it first came to light. My four examples that I will discuss in detail will be therapeutic relationships, communication, assisting in personal care and the six principles of nursing and how these topics show the importance of person-centred…
By understanding other cultures we gain knowledge about the customs and traditions of the nurses. We learn their values and ethics and we can promote the acceptation and respect for their cultural identity. The nurses are going to feel welcome, they are going to sense that other coworkers respect them and also that they are an important part of the team. We can promote a positive and safe environment for different cultures that will increase with the retention of nurses. For example, one of my co-workers needs to wear a handkerchief covering her head, for a cultural reason, we understand her beliefs and we respect her decision, she had expressed many times that in her previous work place that was a big issue and people used to talk about…
There are many different approaches in developing a relationship with patients, one of which being holistic, patient-centered care. Holistic care is described as “all nursing practice that has healing the whole person as its goal” (American Holistic Nurses’ Association, 1998, Description of Holistic Nursing). A holistic approach allows the nurse to view the patient as a whole, as opposed to focusing in on one small aspect. By viewing the entire person, we are able to provide spiritual, medical, and any other type of care that may be necessary in aiding the recovery of our patients. “Holism involves studying and understanding the interrelationships of the bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions of the person, recognizing that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” (Dossey, 2010, p.14), which further emphasizes that by using a holistic nursing approach, we are able to take not only a patient’s physical well-being into consideration, but also the emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being of our…
My second semester as a nursing student offered insight to a variety of situations that occur that require you to follow your ethical obligations rather than relying on personal moral values. I experienced this while at the Western Community Day Care when a five year old received a soda to drink early in the morning from her mother. The mother’s logic behind this decision was to supply her daughter with something high in sugar to wake her up; although I can understand her reasoning, I extremely disagree with her decision since certain foods are more stable and healthy than soda. It was very tempting to take the soda away from the child and give her something else instead. Despite my personal beliefs, it would have been unethical of me to go…
A Nurse’s Role Providing patient safety is not the of a nurse. The nurse must also show commitment, from the code of ethics, to provide competent and ethical care. Registered nurses also have the professional obligation to raise concerns regarding any patient assignment that may put the patient, the nurse or both at risk. This professional obligation is anchored in the Nursing’s Social Policy Statement Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice. Under the Provisions of the Code of Ethics provision 3 it states, “The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient”.…
25). Patients typically spend more time with their nurses than anyone else during a hospital stay. Intuition is important in the aspect that the nurse needs to be able to focus on a time that the patient might open up spiritually to allow healing to occur. Nurses must also possess the interpersonal skills necessary to be able to “overcome our own fears and anxieties to engage with the patient” (Sawatzky & Pesut, 2005, p. 26) spiritually. “Engagement and dialogue with an attitude of openness, nonjudgementalism, and learning on the part of the nurse is essential” (Sawatzky & Pesut, 2005, p. 26).…
Sometimes as a member of the healthcare team I wonder if it is possible to care too much. While caring for a patient can have simple task related meanings, such as providing skin care or providing nutritional care, I feel that the real definition of caring in nursing means involving ones emotions in the concern of improving all aspects of a patients well-being. Allowing yourself to become too emotionally involved is sometimes easy to do and can lead to additional stress on the nurse when the patients needs can not be met. The goal is always to aid a patient in healing, and we must remind ourselves that sometimes caring does not mean healing the physical body, but helping the patient heal emotionally. This could mean being a source of support and strength during times of hardship, and sadly sometimes this means being the one who sits at the bedside holding a dying patients hands.…
This assignment is to introduce how a therapeutic relationship between a nurse and patient can help maximise the communication skills and behaviours of a nurse, this is to help with a patients experiences and feelings. The National Competency Standards for a registered nurse, which is under standard 9 sub-section 9.1, “demonstrate empathy, trust and respect for the dignity and potential of the individual/group” (Board, 2006) has been chosen to help with the discussion on how to establish, maintain and conclude a therapeutic relationship as a nurse. A patient from the City of Horizon will be used to help as a reflection on how empathy, trust and respect is important in establishing a therapeutic relationship. This patient is Vincent Romero an 83 year old male in Horizon Hospital,…
The Role of Nursing It is said that the nursing profession is one of the most respected and trusted careers there are. From the beginning, a nurse’s role was to nurture and mend those that are sick, frail and even through the process of end of life, but it doesn’t just stop there. Nursing has come a long way and entails many more aspects than they are even given credit for. A nurse wears many hats and is required to perform duties outside of healing obvious wounds.…
Honesty and honor must be practiced by a nurse to become effective. For example, one should not write vital signs results on the patient’s chart if they were not actually taken. If a nurse makes mistake or error, one must report it immediately and make an incident report as soon as possible. Avoid throwing blames to others, but instead focus on the solution of the problem in order to maintain patient’s safety and comfort. There are also rules that remained the same in the nursing profession in the past hundred years.…