Caring

Question 1

providing care vs caring: providing care

Answer 1

• techniques
• giving meds
• washing

Question 2

providing care vs caring: caring

Answer 2

• having conversations
• getting to know your patients
• emotion behind giving care
• attitude
• taking time

Question 3

caring

Answer 3

• not an emotional feeling
• a chosen action or response
• considering the individuals experiences
• giving of yourself with compassion and concern

Question 4

providing care vs caring

Answer 4

• can provide care when being caring

- don’t have to be caring when providing care

Question 5

6 C’s of caring

Answer 5

1) commitment
2) conscience
3) competence
4) compassion
5) confidence
6) comportment

Question 6

commitment

Answer 6

• continuing care when things are difficult
• set standards for yourself
• mixing of ones desires and obligations and the deliberate choice to acts on it

Question 7

conscience

Answer 7

• being guided by what you think is right
• morals/ethics
• form a sense of right and wrong

Question 8

competence

Answer 8

• keeping up with changing world of medicine
• working within your scope
• knowing scope of professional/personal boundaries

Question 9

compassion

Answer 9

• understanding feelings but not taking them on
• putting yourself in others shoes
• understanding feeling and doing something about it
• whole realm of sympathy, empathy, and compassion

Question 10

confidence

Answer 10

• being sure of yourself

- be confident in yourself to be able to care for others

Question 11

comportment

Answer 11

• demeanour
• dress
• language
• how you’re being perceived
• body language

Question 12

empathy

Answer 12

• ability to be sensitive to communicate understanding of clients feelings
• ability to put yourself in clients shoes

Question 13

sympathy

Answer 13

• when one person shares same feelings of another

- ex: when someone close is experiencing grief or loss

Question 14

how nurses demonstrate caring

Answer 14

• taking interest in who they are as a person
• finding out what the experience means to them
• taking time to do little tasks to help with comfort
• respecting routine of client and adjusting accordingly

Question 15

can caring be taught?

Answer 15

• skills than can be taught to be further developed

- have to practice it

Question 16

components of therapeutic relationships (5)

Answer 16

• power
• trust
• respect
• professional intimacy
• empathy (not sympathy)

Question 17

power

Answer 17

• having power over your client
• being able to advocate for them due to having the knowledge they don’t
• must develop trust through power imbalance

Question 18

trust

Answer 18

• confidentiality
• trust that we will do what best for them
• trust that we are capable

Question 19

respect

Answer 19

• a two way street
• respecting who they are as a person
• throughout hospital/health care providers

Question 20

professional intimacy

Answer 20

• sharing info
• getting to know people at intimate level
• not crossing boundaries

Question 21

standards for nurse client relationship

Answer 21

1) therapeutic communication
2) client centered care
3) maintaining boundaries
4) protection from harm

Question 22

therapeutic communicatio

Answer 22

• RN uses wide range of communication strategies and interpersonal skills to establish, maintain, and terminate therapeutic nurse-client relationship

Question 23

client centered care

Answer 23

• RN works with client to ensure all professional behaviours and actions meet therapeutic needs of client

Question 24

maintaining boundaries

Answer 24

• RN is responsible and accountable for establishing and maintaining boundaries in therapeutic nurse-client relationship

Question 25

protection from harm

Answer 25

• RN protects client from harm by ensuring that abuse is prevented or stopped and reported