Often, the emphasis lies on the effects of nursing care on patients without considering caregiving effects on nurses. Black (2014) acknowledges that it is easy for healthcare professionals to lose the balance between self-care and caring for others. Some of the self-care challenges that nurses can face include, “burnout, professional dynamics and personal responses to nursing” (Black, 2014, p. 334). Healthcare professionals may face work environment challenges such as time pressure, role conflict, and poor work relationships.…
Some regard care only in a pathological sense. However, in nursing, emotional, transpersonal, and a true connectedness with the patients will advance their health. Since the concept of caring is difficult…
A Duty to Care: The Role of a Nurse in Circumstances of Patient Nonadherence Health care professionals are all too often aware of the lifestyle choices that have led the patient to seek treatment in their care. However, the implications of these lifestyle choices and issues that can arise from nonadherence are often downplayed or simply disregarded by the patients despite the urgency of the matter being expressed by the health care professionals. In other words, sometimes, the patients refuse to alter their lifestyle for the preservation of their own health. This can be frustrating, to say the very least, but it does not, under any circumstances, dismiss the health care professionals from their duty of care (Laken, 1983).…
It is a skill and nurses need to educate to restoring harmony in patients. Caring is an attitude, that professional nurses in hospitals need to be encouraged to research and consider as a lifelong process. The caring process that will reflect of the patient outcome and satisfaction (Clerico et al.,…
NUR210 Scholarly Paper: Jean Watson Jean Watson stated, “Caring is the essence nursing.” (Cara, 2005). This is not only Watson’s view of nursing, but it is also my own personal opinion as well. Nursing to me, not only involves the physical care of the person in the hospital, but also the emotional growth and healing along with the restoration of hope that often happens throughout the duration of one’s hospital stay. This can be achieved by using the four main concepts of nursing which include person, environment, health, and finally, nursing.…
It is important that health care organizations implement Jean Watson’s caring theory for several reasons. The theory focuses on how caring improves health and wellbeing not only for the patient, but also for the nurse, so that they will be satisfied with themselves as health care providers. Organizations who use this theory report greater employee satisfaction and better co-worker relationships (Jean Watson’s Caring Theory, n.d.). Caring theory can best be applied in the oncology setting.…
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.…
Caring comprises care givers and care recipients. Watson mentioned about the importance of nurses caring about themselves (Lachman, 2012). Leaders need to find occasions to be present with staff. Thay should show caring attitude towards their employees. When they see and feel the expression of caring, the attitude of caring reproduced in patient care.…
The healthcare system has been expanding throughout the years. It is complex and no longer “what it used to be.” I envision myself as nurse that values key components such as empathy and compassion. Not just treating my patients with uttermost respect and kindness but to promote healing even when curing is not an option. I want to make sure my patients and families feel secure, and reassured.…
As a nursing student, I feel it is important to familiarize myself with various nursing literature to enhance my knowledge on nursing practice and to shape the type of nurse I want to become. The way I want to structure my future career is centered around the concept of empathy, which is what I will be discussing in this paper. The purpose of this paper is to become aware of my views, attitudes, and how my experiences will affect my nursing practice. I will first examine how an effective therapeutic nurse-client relationship can be developed from the use of empathy and how the patient is positively affected by this skill.…
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.…
Furthermore, caring is the primary focus and without caring there will be no degree of healing. American Nurses Association (2010) describes caring as continuously showing empathy and compassion for the patient. All aspects of caring delivered will heighten the ability of a nurse to perform effectively in providing optimum care in any situation. Nurses are the essential link in providing best care for the patient and assuring that the health care team adheres to the professional standards of practice. Therefore, providing a safe environment will help safeguard the patient from any harm.…
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.…
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).…
All fourteen points ensure complete and holistic care of the patient. There is an exchange that takes place between those who provide care and those cared for that goes beyond the empirical reality of the moment and incorporates the spiritual. The 'art' of providing care includes an aspect of caring that has metaphysical origins and connotations. It concerns all aspects of the human experience, physical, psychological, spiritual and social. The Gestalt approach to nursing and the inclusion of caring as a primary requisite is the heart of the concept of interactive theory as it applies to nursing and as presented by Ms. Henderson.…