Caring Flashcards
Caring is at the heart of a nurse’s ability to work with all patients in a respectful and therapeutic way
T/F
TRUE
Theoretical Views on Caring:
Benner’s Caring
Is primary
- caring determines what matters to a person ( caring is specific to every nursing encounter )
- caring helps you provide patient centered care ( develop a RS with your patient to understand what their going through )
Theoretical Views on Caring:
Leininger’s Transcultural Caring
Understand cultural caring behaviors
- Caring is an essential human need
- caring helps an individual or group improve a human condition
- caring helps protect, develop, nurture and sustain people
Theoretical Views on Caring:
Watson’s Transpersonal Caring
Caring is spiritual
- promotes healing and wholeness
- rejects the disease orientation to healthcare
- places care before cure
- emphasizes the nurse-patient relationship
CARING HEALING PROMOTES HEALING
Theoretical Views on Caring:
Swanson’s Theory of Caring
5 care processes
- knowing
- being with
- doing for
- enabling
- maintaining belief
Defines caring as a nurturing way of relating to an individual
States that caring is a central nursing phenomenon but is not necessarily unique to nursing practice
Summary of theoretical views
- Nursing caring theories have common theme
- Caring is highly rational
- Caring theories are valuable when assessing patient perceptions of being cared for in a multicultural environment
- Enabling is an aspect of caring
- Knowing the context of pt’s illness helps you choose and individualize interventions that will help the pt
nursing caring theories have common theme
( human interaction/ communication, mutuality, appreciating uniqueness of IND, and important welfare of pt and family )
caring is highly rational
caring theories are valuable when assessing patient perceptions of being cared for in a multicultural environment
enabling is an aspect of caring
knowing the context of pt’s illness helps you choose and ind interventions that will help the pt
Which are the patients perspective of caring
- connecting with pt and their family
- being present
- respecting values, beliefs, and health care choices
connecting with pt and their family
being present
respecting values, beliefs, and healthcare choices
Ethic of care includes
- any pt encounter a nurse needs to know what behavior is ethically appropriate
- ethic of care is unique, so professional nurses don’t make professional decisions based solely on intellectual or analytical principles
- instead, ethic of care places caring at the center of decision making
- always be your patients advocate
any pt encounter, a nurse needs to know what behavior is ethically appropriate
Ethic of care is unique, so professional nurses don’t professional decisions based solely on intellectual or analytical principles
instead, ethic of care places caring at the center of decision making
ALWAYS BE YOUR PATIENTS ADVOCATE
Caring in nursing practice
- as you deal with health and illness in your practice, you grow in your ability to care and develop caring behaviors
- caring is one of those human behaviors that we can give and receive
- recognize the importance of self-care
- use caring behaviors to reach out to your colleagues and care for them as well
as you deal with health and illness in your practice, you grow your ability to care and develop caring behaviors
caring is one of those human behaviors that we can give and receive
recognize the importance of self-care
use caring behaviors to out to your colleagues and care for them as well
How to provide presence with the patient?
- eye contact
- body language
- tone of voice
- listening
- positive
- encouraging attitude
eye contact
body language
tone of voice
listening
positive
encourage attitude
What does touch do
- provides comfort
- creates a connection
provides a connection
creates a connection
- noncontact touch
- contact touch
- task oriented touch
- caring touch
- protective touch ( ie: backrub )
what does listening to pt do?
- creates trust
- open lines of communication
- creates a mutual relationship
creates trust
open lines of communication
creates a mutual relationship
Knowing the patient
- develops over time
- the core process of clinical decision making
- aspects of knowing include?
develops over time
the core process of clinical decision making
aspects of knowing include
- responses to therapy, routines, and habits
- coping resources
- physical capacities and endurance
Spiritual Caring
- spiritual health is achieved when a person can find a balance between their life values, goals, and belief systems and those of others
- spirituality offers a sene of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal connectedness
spiritual health is achieved when a person can find a balance between their life values, goals and belief systems and those of others
spirituality offers a sense of intrapersonal. interpersonal and transpersonal connectedness
Relieving symptoms and suffering
- performing caring nursing actions that give a pt comfort, dignity, respect, and peace
- providing necessary comfort and support measures to the family or significant others
- creating a physical patient care environment that soothes and heals the mind, body, and spirit
- comforting through a listening, nonjudgemental, caring presence
performing caring nursing actions that give a pt comfort dignity respect and peace
providing necessary comfort and support measures to the fam or SO
creating a physical pt care environment that soothes and heals the mind body and spirit
comforting through a listening nonjudgemental caring presence
Challenge of caring
- task oriented biomedical model
- institutional demands
- time constraints
- reliance on tech, cost effective strategies and standardized work process
(if health care is to make a positive difference in pts lives, health care must become more holistic and humanistic)
task oriented biomedical model
institutional demands
time constraints
reliance on tech cost effective strategies and standardized work process
if health care is to make a positive difference in pts lives, health care must become more holistic nd humanistic