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Nursing is a complex and vital profession that contributes to the health of people all over the world. Nursing has been around for centuries and greatly evolved and made a significant impact in the field of medicine. The Hawaii Board of Nursing describes this profession as knowledge of the human condition from young to old and how clients relate to others within the environment (Hawaii Board of Nursing, n.d.). While the practice of helping others is noble in thought, it can come with instances of injury or harm to the health provider or the health recipient.…
Nurses must also be able to critically think through each situation and make a clinical judgement when it comes time to activate…
Historically, attempts at researching effectiveness of caring theory were found difficult and too abstract to study. Watson believed that there is a discord between methodology and multidimensional phenomena of nursing care and that research data is not amenable to research techniques (Tomey & Alligood, 2002). The need for theory guided practice and greater transparency regarding quality outcomes has provided a background for nurses to measure the effectiveness of their professional practice environments. Watson’s Theory of Caring was a template for developing The Watson Caritas Patient Score (WCPS). WCPS is now a reliable tool used to assess perspectives of caring practices throughout the…
The definition of nursing is a profession or practice of taking care of the sick or the unable. It is the art and science of healing. The very core of nursing is putting the needs of others before your own. However, one very important question is oftentimes overlooked or never asked at all. Who takes care of the care giver?…
Caring influence patients positively and, it is beneficial to all stakeholders to preserve, protect, promote, and sustain the caring practices, which is the core of professional nursing. Patients had improved self-esteem, quality of life, knowledge, coping mechanisms, decreased lengths of stay and health care costs when they perceived that caring was apparent. The fountain of nursing practice is caring which is vital in promoting favorable patient outcomes. The combination of caring with competence is essential to improving health care outcomes (Desmond et al.,…
In Mosby’s dictionary of medicine, nursing & health professions (9th ed. , pp. 1109). St. Louis: Elsevier Reed, J., & Watson, D. (1994). The impact of the medical model on nursing practice and assessment.…
Compassion Fatigue Cecily S. Gleason University of North Florida Compassion Fatigue When compassion is lost, you are left with a drained nurse that no longer has compassion for her patients, their families, their illnesses, their suffering. These same nurses very well may be the best in their field, but once they lose their compassion, they have lost their profession. This is a growing problem in the field of medicine.…
In this article, the author acknowledges that secondary trauma can occurs in many treatment areas of nursing care. Although the extent of secondary trauma is unknown, no one questions its existence. The symptoms can be similar to that of firsthand trauma, but two of the maladaptive coping mechanisms are disengagement from all patients, particularly those that remind the nurse of the prior experience, or over-involvement with the patient who has had trauma. The authors discuss the importance of a trauma awareness culture, clinical supervision, and self-care. This article addresses the needs of caring for the care-giver, and offer an understanding of the importance of recognizing secondary trauma to avoid…
In the nursing profession, you must have an overwhelming amount of compassion and caring for your patients and their families. You must remember that you are not only caring for the patient’s physical health, but also their emotional well-being. This belief system lines up with Jean Watson’s Human Caring Theory. Watson believes the practice of caring is central to nursing; it is the unifying focus for practice. The major conceptual elements of the theory are carative factors, transpersonal caring relationship, and caring moment/caring occasion.…
Nursing is the profession of caring. Many prospective students set their goals towards pursuing a career in this field of healing because they do, in fact, want to assist people in their journey of growth with precise and trusting care. Though their intentions are pure and genuine, an aspect that some aspiring nursing students may not consider is that many, if not a majority, of their patients in need of care will not be of paramount condition. Instead, their path of healing entails a multitude of barriers and obstacles for their care in such a fragile state. With physical and emotional vulnerability…
Is when nurse managers can implement an affection of humankind, and when they can influence the staff nurses to participate in self-care activities. The staffing is critical when conveying care for a patient. Nurses can exercise how to present love and kindness for them self as well as for others. Having guidelines that promote healthy work activities, and decreasing the call-ins back to work can allow nurses to rest and refresh. These valuable points shows how combining the theory of human caring with these points could play a major part on the nurses work settings, and their own view of how to be cared for.…
Nursing goes beyond caring for a patient during their illness and managing their disease process. Nursing includes adapting to a patient’s and their family’s physical, social, spiritual, environmental and psychological needs. I believe in treating the whole patient and being supportive of the family’s needs as well. Shelly & Miller (2006) asserts “while critical thinking, decision making, and leadership skills are extremely important, the characteristics nurses need most are compassion, competence, faith, integrity and responsibility” (p. 291).…
Caring in Nursing Compassion and Caring Every individual has his/her own unique perception of caring. There are so many ways to show caring that the possibilities are endless. Nurses are often associated with caring because they support, comfort, and help the patient recover to the best of their ability. Their experiences dealing with different patients that have unique situations on a daily basis help them become better caregivers.…
(Boundless, 2016) defined social perception as being the first stages where individuals process information so that they can determine other individuals or group’s mind- set and intentions. According to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) (2014), Nursing is the use of clinical judgements when delivering care in order for individuals to improve, maintain or recover health, to cope with health problems, and gain the highest quality of life despite their disease or disability until death. However, it is clear that nurses have not always acted in a manner which complies with their profession. This essay will focus upon the influences of the public’s view on nursing since the occurrence of the MidStaffs Crisis. Nursing has been significantly influenced…
Caring can be one of the most stressful parts of the nursing profession, it connects us to our patients emotionally and can cause us to take additional strain and stress on to ourselves in an effort to help out patients heal in…