Caring/Holism

Question 1

Why is self care important?

Answer 1

Mayeroff relates caring to a parasitic relationship in which balance and continual growth is needed; Kennedy notes that burnout comes with being focused on other all the time the expense paid is health, well-being, and the ability to lead effectively for a sustained amount of time

Question 2

Factors that influence burnout

Answer 2

covid, staffing, PTSD, unhealthy stress management, not taking time for yourself, not getting professional help if you need it

Question 3

What are the inter-related concepts of spirituality?

Answer 3

communication, development, culture, family dynamics, cognition

Question 4

Constructs of Spirituality

Answer 4

self transcendence; connectedness, faith, hope, spiritual well being, religion

Question 5

Religious Care

Answer 5

helping patients maintain faithfulness to their belief system and worship practices

Question 6

Spiritual Care

Answer 6

helping people identify meaning and purpose in life, look beyond the present, and maintain personal relations as well as a relationship with a higher being or life force

Question 7

Spiritual Health

Answer 7

represents a balance, matures with increasing awareness of meaning purpose and life values, spiritual beliefs change as patients grow and develop

Question 8

Spiritual Distress

Answer 8

impaired ability to experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life through connectedness with self, others, nature and/or a power greater than oneself; acute illnes, chronic illness, terminal illness, near death experience

Question 9

Critical Thinking in Spiritual Care

Answer 9

apply knowledge, experience, standards and attitudes; personal experience in caring for patients in spiritual distress is valuable when helping patients select coping options; each person has a unique spirituality

Question 10

Clinical Decision Making Process - Recognize Cues

Answer 10

assessment expresses a level of caring and support; taking a faith history reveals patients beliefs about life, health, and a supreme being; through the patients eyes; assessment tools; faith/belief (ask about religious source of guidance and understand the patients philisophy of life)

Question 11

Life and Self Responsibilty

Answer 11

ask about a patients understanding of illness limitations or threats and how the patient will adjust

Question 12

Connectedness

Answer 12

ask about how the patients ability to express a sense of related to something greater than self

Question 13

How to Include a Spiritual Aspect to Care Planning

Answer 13

goals and outcomes: a spiritual care plan includes realistic and individualized goals with relevant outcomes; setting priorities: the client identifies what is most important; teamwork and collaboration: in a hospital setting, the pastoral care department is a valuable resource

Question 14

Caring

Answer 14

is defined as displaying kindness and concern for others; the work or practice of looking after those unable to care for themselves, especially sick and elderly people

Question 15

What is caring in nursing?

Answer 15

fundamental concept that encompasses the emotional, physical and psychological support provided by nurses to their patients; it goes beyond simply administering medical treatment and involves showing empathy, compassion, and respect for the patients dignity and autonomy

Question 16

Philosophy

Answer 16

the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence; it is the most basic beliefs, concepts, and attitudes of an individual or group

Question 17

What are the ingredients of caring?

Answer 17

knowing, alternating rhythms, patience, honesty, trust, humility, hope, courage

Question 18

Knowing

Answer 18

i must understand the others needs and I must be able to respond properly to them, and clearly good intentions do not guarantee this

Question 19

Alternating Rhythms

Answer 19

a rhythm of moving back and forth between a narrower and wider framework of action/interaction

Question 20

Patience

Answer 20

by patiently listening to the distraught man, by being present for him, we give him space to think and feel; perhaps instead of speaking of space and time, it would be truer to say that the patient man gives the other room to live; he enlarges the others living room, whereas the impatient man narrows it

Question 21

Honesty

Answer 21

to care for the other, I must see the other as it is and not as I would like it to be or feel it must be; If i am to help the other to grow, I must respond to its chaning needs; even when the facts are unpleasant, I respect them, for it is only by taking them seriously that I can be in touch with the other and care for it

Question 22

Trust

Answer 22

caring involves trusting the other to grow in its own time and in its own way

Question 23

Humility

Answer 23

through caring I come to a truer appreciation of my limitations as well as my strengths; my limitations are neither resented nor glorified and I can find joy in the successful use of my skills

Question 24

Hope

Answer 24

there is hope that th eother wil grow through my caring which is more general than hope as a specific expectation; it is like in some ways to the hope that accompanies the coming of spring

Question 25

Courage

Answer 25

trust in the other to grow and in my own ability to care gives me courage to go into the unknown; but it is also true that without the courage to go into the unkown such trust would be impossible