Chapter 7: Caring in Nursing Potter Definitions

Question 1

Caring

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Comforting

Answer 2

Acts toward another individual that display both an emotional and physical calm. The use of touch, establishing presence, the therapuetic use of silence, and the skillful and gentle performance of a procedure are examples of comforting nursing measures

Question 3

Ethics of care

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Presence

Answer 4

person to person encounter conveying a closeness and sense of caring

Question 5

Transcultural

Answer 5

Concept of care extending across cultures that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines

Question 6

Transformative

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Knowing

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Being With

Answer 8

Being emotionally present to the other

Question 9

Doing for

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Enabling

Answer 10

Facilitating the other’s passage through life transitions

Question 11

Maintaining belief

Answer 11

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