Four Elements Of Caring Analysis

“Four elements of caring. The four elements or fundamentals necessary for effective caring require certain attitudes and skills. Good care combines certain activities, attitudes, and knowledge of the patient and the situation.” For example, my best friend “Ashley” has sickle cells and sometimes she goes to the doctor a lot. Sometimes when she’s going through a pain crisis she misses a lot of school days in a row. Sometimes a crisis can be handled at home, with rest, fluid, medicine, and other things to manage pain. Other times it's necessary to go to the hospital. Some people may have frequent pain crises; others may have them less often. Well in this case she had frequent pain crises; she called her primary doctor to make an appointment but she couldn’t wait the pain was getting worse so I immediately rushed her to the ER. As we were doing admissions the LPN asked her to rate her pain from 1-10 on a scale and Ashley picked 10 of course. But the nurse looked at her funny and said it doesn’t look like you’re in pain, are you sure your pain is on a scale of 10 and Ashley replied yes. Ashley then requested for another nurse because she felt like the LPN was being judgmental; her body language, facial expression, and tone of voice gave us the sign of disbelief and doubt. Another nurse came in and assisted Ashley she was …show more content…
First, it must be distinguished from nonmaleficence, which describes a moral attitude or virtue rather than a moral action. Second, nonmaleficence is frequently explicated by the terms “harm” and “injury”. Both terms are somewhat ambiguous. Injury may refer to harm, disability, or death, on the one hand, or to injustice or wrong, on the other. For example, view not injuring others as a synonym of nonmaleficence and includes under the duty of nonmaleficence a number of prohibitions of harmful activities drawn from the Decalogue, such as the rules against killing, stealing, committing adultery, and bearing false