Caring Flashcards
Providing care vs Caring
you can provide care without caring: providing care means doing the job, but caring is your attitude, how you should you care about the patient
Caring
not an emotional feeling, it is a chosen action or response, caring means considering their individual experience and giving yourself with compassion and concern to give them the best leadership
6Cs of Caring
commitment, conscience, competence, compassion, confidence, comportment
commitment
set standards for yourself, mixing ones desires and obligations and the deliberate choice to act on it
conscience
guided by what you thinking is right (morals, ethics) form a sense of right vs wrong
competence
working within your scope, keeping up with the changing world of medicine
compassion
not taking feelings on, trying to understand what they are going through, like empathy but taking an extra step: doing something about it. (Sympathy–> Empathy–> Compassion)
Confidence
confidence in your abilities, its okay to say IDK but how you say it, important that both you and the client have confidence in you
comportment
demeanor, language, how you are perceived
Empathy
ability to be sensitive to communicate understanding of the clients feelings. Empathy is the ability to put yourself in the clients shoes
Sympathy
when one person shares the same feelings of another, such as when someone close is experiencing grief or loss
how to demonstrate care
dealing with injury AND treating them like a person, taking that extra step, try to accommodate to them (schedule/routine, ask them how they want it done etc)
Components of a Therapeutic relationship
power, trust, respect, professional intimacy, empathy
standard for a therapeutic relationship
therapeutic relationship, client centred care, boundaries, protection from harm
