Caritas Flashcards
are learned early in life but can be influenced greatly by nurse educators. This factor can be defined as satisfaction through giving and extension of the sense of self
Formation of a Humanistic Altruistic System of Values
facilitates the promotion of holistic nursing care and positive health within the patient population. It also describes the nurse’s role in developing effective nurse-patient interrelationships and in promoting wellness by helping the patient adopt health-seeking behaviors
Instillation of Faith-Hope
The recognition of feelings leads to self-actualization through self-acceptance for both the nurse and patient. As nurses acknowledge their sensitivity and feelings, they become more genuine, authentic, and sensitive to others
Cultivation of Sensitivity to Self and Others
promotes and accepts the expression of both positive and negative feelings.
Development of a Helping-Trust Relationship
The sharing of feelings is a risk-taking experience for both nurse and patient. The nurse must recognize that intellectual and emotional understandings of a situation differ
Promotion and Acceptance of the Expression
of Positive and Negative Feelings
Use of the nursing process brings a scientific problem-solving approach to nursing care, dispelling the traditional image of a nurse as the doctor’s handmaiden.
Systematic Use of the Scientific Problem-Solving Method for Decision Making
it separates caring from curing. It allows the patient to be informed and shifts the responsibility for wellness and health to the patient. Designed to enable patients to provide self-care, determine personal needs, and provide opportunities for their personal growth.
Promotion of Interpersonal Teaching- Learning
The nurse recognizes the biophysical, psychophysical, psychosocial, and intrapersonal needs of self and patient. Patients must satisfy lower-order needs before attempting to attain higher-order needs.
Assistance with Gratification of Human Needs
“Opening and attending to spiritual-mysterious and existential dimensions of one’s own life-death; soul care for self and the one- being-cared for”
Allowance for Existential- Phenomenological Forces
“Assisting with basic needs, with an intentional caring consciousness, administering ‘human care essentials,’ which potentiate alignment of mind body spirit, wholeness, and
unity of being in all aspects of care”
Assistance with Gratification of Human Needs
“Creating healing environment at all levels (physical as well as nonphysical, subtle environment of energy and consciousness, whereby wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity, and peace are potentiated)”
Provision for a Supportive, Protective, and Corrective Mental, Physical, Sociocultural, and Spiritual Environment
“Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to unity of being and meaning, attempting to stay within others’ frame of reference”
Promotion of Interpersonal Teaching- Learning
“Creative use of self and all ways of knowing as part of the caring process; to engage in the artistry of caring-healing practices”
Systematic Use of the Scientific Problem-Solving Method for Decision Making
“Being present to, and supportive of, the expression of positive and negative feelings as a connection with deeper spirit and self and the one- being-cared for”
Promotion and Acceptance of the Expression
of Positive and Negative Feelings
