DB 1 “Innocent Amusements” Hartman’s analysis of the “precariousness of empathy” performs as preparation for her examination of how whites have often hijacked the black experience for pleasure, both as an instrument of empathy and with nefarious intentions. This subjection of the black experience for white pleasure is evidenced by minstrel shows that reinforce black subjugation (29), observations made by whites of black “merriment” as somehow describing the slave perspective (34), and the characterizations of the slave as a commodity that wants to be bought (38). After reading this, I began to think about parallels to today. Is the black experience still only legitimized and occupied when recognized by the white dominion? If so, this historical…
Empathy is extremely vital when trying to communicate with patients about their needs and concerns pertaining to their health in a healthcare setting. If healthcare providers do not communicate in a manner that patients can relate to then it can cause barriers and individuals may be less likely to receive the correct care. Health care provider may face more obstacles in treating individuals because their heart is not with their patient. Empathy extends beyond the basic understanding of the patient’s history and symptoms to include values, ideas, and feelings (“Creating Allies fir a Healthy World”, 2013). Communication can help in decreasing patient…
Tuality home health is a home health agency that sees patients in Washington county and surrounding areas. The services provided through home health are skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and social work. Home health has to be ordered by a doctor in order for patients to be admitted to service. Skilled nursing care provided to patients to patients consists of catheter care, wound care, ostomy care, diabetes management and education, congestive heart failure management and education, medication management, home safety education, and many more. Nurses are committed to provide quality, efficient care in the home setting for patients who are unable to safely transfer for care.…
We can all learn about being compassionate and the value of human dignity even if a patient can’t respond to you.…
I continually try to remind myself of this statement. It is important to communicate with your patients what health and heeling is. I need to ensure that all my patients have the necessary resources to encourage a healing environment. I feel I do a good job with empathy and compassion but lack some in communication and offering social support. Through this research I gained insight into the importance of communicating with a patient and their family’s to ensure the best healing environment possible.…
With my head covered and shoes removed, I bent over to wash my hands and feet in the holy water before stepping inside the Golden Temple. With my hands folded together, I stood in front of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib (holy scriptures) and dedicated a prayer for Jatinder’s, my brother’s, health. Growing up with an older brother with special needs, I have seen the close relationship my family has with the family physician. The role of the family physician in patients with Down Syndrome is to provide a comprehensive medical evaluation and medical surveillance of diseases common in them. Further, my parents seek for guidance for more than Jatinder’s medical needs, including his daily living skills, intellectual disability, and functional limitations.…
The TEQ was developed to quantity professionally and consistently assess empathy. 41 It has been reported that earlier instrument to measure empathy fail to accomplish great diverseness and multifariousness 42 but TEQ was formulated on the broadest level. 41 The TEQ is 16-item five-point Likert type self-reported questionnaire assesses behavioral, emotional, cognitive and physiological aspects of empathy in individuals in broad-spectrum.…
P, 2013). This statement shows the importance of compassion, dignity and respect when caring for a patient, as it could either have a lasting positive or negative effect on their health and well-being. Royal College of nursing states that ‘Person-centred care is ensuring that the person or patient is an equal partner in their health care and they follow their eight principles that include dignity, compassion and empowerment as a guideline of what staff should provide and promote to patients,’ (RCN,…
As a person who has a chronic illness and is also involved with the disability and chronically ill community, I know what it is like to experience suffering and can truly emphasize with the sick. The reason I went into the medical field was because I want to be able to take the things I learn from my condition and bring empathy and compassion into the healthcare field. When people are feeling sick, sometimes the best medicine will not solve the problem, yet empathy makes the whole situation just a little bit better. In healthcare, compassion must be a daily part of life as we ought to see people’s pain and moved to help alleviate their suffering. I have personally seen the difference in effectiveness of providers who do not have compassion.…
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…
What events led you to choose nursing as a career at this stage in your life? Why are you choosing to pursue this degree at NYU? If one’s career choice is typically influenced by personal aptitudes, sociocultural environments and life experiences, as I reflect on my life’s journey, there has been one constant that inevitably shaped who I am. I have often been described as “my sister’s keeper.”…
Just when I think I have known everything about human condition, I was introduced with another. Working in pharmacy, I get to work directly with patients and that means seeing the different views of the human nature. When helping patients, I always remind myself to always consider that patients might be under stress or their current health conditions can be an important factor. Beside all the anger and frustration, occasionally I can see how thankful the patients are. They are thankful for whatever we have done even when they don’t say…
Critique This paper will critique Bramley and Matiti (2014) paper exploring compassion. This article shows the importance of developing and practicing compassionate care whilst in education and also throughout the careers of nurses. The Care Quality Commission (CQC), (2014) stated that reports and recommendations in regards to compassions refer largely to nursing care.…
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.…
Describe the counselling skill of empathy and expand on how offering empathy in the therapeutic process and helps a client change. In the context of counselling, empathy is being in and completely understand the emotional landscape of the client as if it were your own and communicating this understanding to them. There are multiple types of empathy such as basic, advanced, invitational and preparatory that can be used to bring notice to a clients feelings. Offering empathy during the therapeutic process emphasizes to the client that their feelings are being heard without judgement.…