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)
THE SIX C’s OF CARING IN NURSING
o Awareness of one’s relationship with others.
Participation in the experience of another.
Compassion
THE SIX C’s OF CARING IN NURSING
Having the “knowledge, judgment, skills, energy,
experience and motivation required to respond
adequately to the demands of one’s professional
responsibilities”
Competence
THE SIX C’s OF CARING IN NURSING
o Morals, ethics, and an informed sense of right and
wrong. Awareness of personal responsibility
Confidence
THE SIX C’s OF CARING IN NURSING
o Comfort with self, client, and others that allows one
to build trusting relationships.
Conscience
THE SIX C’s OF CARING IN NURSING
o The deliberate choice to act in accordance with one’s
desires as well as obligations, resulting in investment
of self in a task or cause.
Commitment
THE SIX C’s OF CARING IN NURSING
o Appropriate bearing, demeanor, dress, and
language that are in harmony with a caring
presence. Presenting oneself as someone who
respects others and demands respect.
Comportment
THEORY OF HUMAN CARE
(WATSON)
CULTURE CARE DIVESITY AND
UNIVERSALITY
(LEININGER)
THEORY OF CARING
(SWANSON)
THEORY OF BUREAUCRATIC CARING
(RAY)
