Ch 7 Flashcards
Benner
Caring is the essence of excellent nursing
*it’s a word for being connected
Lininger’s transcultural, caring
For caring to be effective, nurses need to learn culturally specific behaviors, in words that reflect human caring in different cultures.
(Small talk, accepting cookies)
Watsons transpersonal care
Apply a holistic treatment approach which includes treating the mind, so, and spirit, as well as the body
(Use knowledge and interventions to promote health and healing)
Examples: listening to patient, seeing the person behind the disease, paying attention to what they are doing moment to moment, learning to take care of themselves
(Care before cure)
Swanson’s theory of caring
Five. Caring process.
Knowing
Being with
Doing for
Enabling
Maintaining belief
Three different types of touch
Noncontact
Contact touch
Protective touch
Knowing the patient
The nurse avoids assumptions, focuses on the patient and engages in a caring relationship with the patient that reveals information and cues that facilitate critical thinking and clinical judgment
Intrapersonal relationship
When people are connected to themselves
Interpersonal relationship
When one is connected with others and the environment
Transpersonal relationship
When when is connected with God, and unseen forces, or a higher power
Challenges of caring
Task orientation
Institutional demands
Time constraints
Reliance on technology, cost-efficient strategies, and standardized work process
Caring
Universal phenomenon influencing the ways in which people think, feel, and behave in relation to one another
Comforting
The use of touch is one comforting approach that reaches out to patients to communicate concern and support
Compassion
Are essential components of nursing care, and need to be taught in practice early nursing education, and emphasize in our clinical practice settings
Ethic of care
Concerned with relationships between people, and with a nurses, character and attitude towards others(advo
Presence
Is a person to person encounter, conveying, a closeness, and sense of caring