NURSING AS ART: CARING Flashcards
o Sharing deep and genuine concern about the
welfare of another person
* Clients and families with illness suffer from an impersonal
healthcare system.
* Nurses can create a more relationship-centered healthcare
system.
* Caring means that people, relationships, and things matter.
Caring
CARING AS “HELPING THE OTHER GROW”
Mayyerhoff
Major ingredients of caring:
– understanding the other’s needs and
how to respond to these needs
Knowing
Major ingredients of caring:
– signifies moving back and
forth between immediate and long-term
meanings of behavior, considering the past.
Alternating rhythms
Major ingredients of caring:
– enables the other to grow in his own
way and time
Patience
Major ingredients of caring:
– awareness and openness to one’s
own feelings and a genuineness in caring for the
other
Honesty
Major ingredients of caring:
– letting go, allow the other to grow in his
own way and own time.
Trust
Major ingredients of caring:
– acknowledging that there is always
more to learn
- Humility
TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE IN NURSING
o From factual, observable phenomena to theoretical
analysis
- Empirical Knowing: The Science of Nursing
Major ingredients of caring:
-belief
Hope
TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE IN NURSING
o Promotes wholeness, integrity in personal encounter
o Achieves engagement
- Personal Knowing: The Therapeutic Use of Self
TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE IN NURSING
o Matters of obligation on what ought to be done”
o Beyond observing code of ethics
- Ethical Knowing: The Moral Component
TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE IN NURSING
o Expressed by individual nurse’s creativity and style
in meeting needs of clients
o Care that is effective and satisfying
Aesthetic Knowing: The Art of Nursing
TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE IN NURSING
o Methods required for one pattern could be used to
develop knowledge within another pattern
o Effective nurses integrate all types to understand
situations holistically.
Developing ways of knowing
CARING, THE HUMAN MODE OF BEING
(ROACH)
