Chapter 7: Caring in Nursing Practice Flashcards
What are Watson’s 10 carative Factors?
Forming a human altruistic value system
Instilling Faith-hope
Cultivating a sensitivity to ones self and to others
Developing a helping, trusting, human caring relationship
Promoting and expressing positive and negative feelings
Using creative problem solving, caring process
Promoting transpersonal teaching-learning
Providing for a supportive, protective, corrective mental, physical, societal, and spiritual environment
Meeting human needs
Allowing for existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces.
What are the 5 Caring processes of “Swanson’s Theory of Caring?”
Knowing…understand the patient…avoid assumtion
Being with…be emotionally present…be present with the patient
Doing for…treat others the way you want to be treated…comfort, protect, preserve dignity
Enabling…help a client with transitions and unfamiliar events…explain, support, give feedback
Maintaining belief…encourage a client with faith…maintain a hope filled attitude
What are nurse caring behaviors as perceived by families?
Provide honest and accurate information
Listen
Be a patient advocate
provide comfort
Read to the patient is needed
Maintain patient privacy
Keep the patient informed
Help the patient be independent
Teach the family
