ch 7 potter caring in nursing practice

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sincerity, presence, availability, and engagement

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. Caring relationships require

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core of nursing, with caring being a key component of what a nurse brings to a patient experience

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The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE, 2010) describes caring and knowledge as the

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is a universal phenomenon influencing the ways in which people think, feel, and behave in relation to one another.

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Caring

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that people, events, projects, and things matter to people

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Caring means (according to patricia benner)

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is the human experience of loss or dysfunction,

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illness

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transcultural view of caring

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Madeleine Leininger (1991) offers a

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For caring to be effective, nurses need to learn culturally specific behaviors and words that reflect human caring in different cultures to identify and meet the needs of all patients

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Madeleine Leininger believes

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caring is a central focus of nursing, and it is integral to maintain the ethical and philosophical roots of the profession

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Jean Watson,(transpersonal caring)

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is a holistic model that supports a nurse’s conscious intention to care to promote healing and wholeness

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Watson’s theory of caring (transpersonal caring)

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rejects the disease orientation to health care and places care before cure

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transpersonal caring theory (jean watson)

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the nurse-patient caring relationship with the focus on carative behaviors

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Watson’s model emphasizes (10 carative factors)

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because the relationship influences both the nurse and the patient for better or for worse

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watsons model is transformative (10 carative factors)

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a nurturing way of relating to an individual (i.e., when one feels a personal sense of commitment and responsibility).

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Swanson (1991) defines caring as

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developing useful and effective caring strategies appropriate for multiple age-group and health care settings

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Swanson’s theory guides nurses in

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interviews with women who miscarried, parents and health care professionals in a newborn intensive care unit, and mothers who were socially at risk and received long-term public health intervention

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Swanson’s theory of caring was developed from 3 perinatal studies involving

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Striving to understand an event as it has meaning in the life of the other

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Knowing (Swanson’s Theory of Caring// caring process) (1 out 5)

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Being emotionally present to the other

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Being with (Swanson’s Theory of Caring// caring process) (2 out 5)

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Doing for the other as he or she would do for self if it were at all possible

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Doing for (Swanson’s Theory of Caring// caring process) (3 out 5)

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Facilitating the other’s passage through life transitions (e.g., birth, death) and unfamiliar events

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Enabling (Swanson’s Theory of Caring// caring process) (4 out 5)

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Sustaining faith in the other’s capacity to get through an event or transition and face a future with meaning

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Maintaining belief (Swanson’s Theory of Caring// caring process) (5 out 5)

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support earlier findings and identify these commonalities as human interaction or communication, mutuality, appreciating the uniqueness of individuals, and improving the welfare of patients and families.

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common themes among the theoretical view of caring.

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was developed to measure caring from a patient’s perspective

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Caring Assessment Tool (CAT)

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refers to the ideals of right and wrong behavior.

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ethic

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is concerned with relationships between people and with a nurse’s character and attitude toward others

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ethic of care

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patient’s advocate, solving ethical dilemmas by attending to relationships and giving priority to each patient’s unique personhood.

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ethic of care places the nurse as the

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is a person-to-person encounter conveying a closeness and sense of caring.

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Providing presence

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interpersonal process that is characterized by sensitivity, wholism, intimacy, vulnerability, and adaptation to unique circumstances.

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Presence is an

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of himself or herself, which means being available and at a patient’s disposal.

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“Being with” involves a nurse giving

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is relational and leads to a connection between nurse and patient. It involves contact and noncontact touch

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Touch

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Contact touch involves obvious skin-to-skin contact and is referred to as

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“therapeutic touch”

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refers to eye contact

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Noncontact touch

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when performing a task or procedure.

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task-oriented touch

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is a form of nonverbal communication, which successfully influences a patient’s comfort and security, enhances self-esteem, increases confidence of caregivers, and improves mental well-being.

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Caring touch

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You express this in the way you hold a patient’s hand, give a back massage, gently position a patient, or participate in a conversation.

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Caring touch examples

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is a form of touch that protects a nurse and/or patient

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Protective touch (pt can view it as positive or negative)

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he most obvious form of protective touch is in preventing an accident (e.g., holding and bracing a patient to avoid a fall). Protective touch can also protect a nurse emotionally.
-(negative view) A nurse withdraws or distances herself or himself from a patient when he or she is unable to tolerate suffering or needs to escape from a situation that is causing tension

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Protective touch example

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You “take in” what a patient says, interpreting and understanding what the patient is saying, and then give back that understanding to the patient.

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listening

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continuity of care and clinical expertise

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Two elements that facilitate knowing are

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helps the nurse respond to what really matters to the patient.

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Intimate knowing

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time, continuity of care, teamwork of the nursing staff, trust, and experience.

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Factors that contribute to knowing patients include

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organizational structure of the organization and economic constraints.
- Organizational changes that result in decreasing the amount of time that nurses are able to spend with their patients affects nurse-patient relationships. Decreased length of stay also reduces the interactions between nurses and their patients

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Barriers to knowing a patient are often related to the

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connectedness:

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Spirituality offers a sense of

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(connected with oneself),

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intrapersonally (spiritually)

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(connected with others and the environment),

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interpersonally (spiritually)

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(connected with the unseen, God, or a higher power)

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transpersonally (spiritually)

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Our reliance on technology and cost-effective health care strategies and efforts to standardize and refine work processes all

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factors that undermine (weaken) the nature of caring.

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This campaign focuses on increasing the amount of time nurses spend with their patients and families. Strategies include greater emphasis on improving the work environment to facilitate more nurse-patient interaction, improving nurse staffing, providing nurses with autonomy over their practice, and promoting increased educational requirements and opportunities

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action” identifies methods to improve both patient care and satisfaction and nurse job satisfaction.

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nursing is a lifetime journey of caring and healing, seeking to understand and preserve the wholeness of human existence and to offer compassionate, informed knowledgeable human caring

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Nightingale vision