Patient's Perceptions of Caring
when pt senses health care providers are sensitive, sympathetic, compassionate, and intersted in them as people, they usually become active partners in the plan of care; pt'sin oncology study associated excellent nursing care w/attntiveness, partnership,
Ethic of Care
caring is a moral imperative, not a commodity to be bought and sold; caring for other human being protects, enhances and preserves human dignity; is a professional, ethical covenant that nursing has with its public
Caring Science
provides a diciplinary foundation from which you deliver pt-centered care
Ethics
the ideals of right and wrong behaviorrrrr
Ethic of Care
concerned with relationships between people and with nurse's character and attitude toward others; Nurses who function from an ethic of care are sensitive to unequal relationships that lead to an abuse of one person's power over another - intentional or o
Caring in Nursing Practice
caring behaviors include providing presence, offering a caring touch and listening
Caring - Presence
a person-to person encounter conveying a closeness and sence of caring; it is 'being there' and 'being with', not only in a physical sense but in communication and understanding; characterized by sensitivity, holism, intimacy, vulnerability and adaptation
Caring - Touch
use of touch is one coforting approach that reaches out to pts to communicate concern and support; involves contact and noncontact touch; 3 catagories: task-oriented, caring, protective touch
Caring - Touch - Contact Touch
skin-to-skin contact
Caring - Touch - Noncontact Touch
eye contact
Caring - Touch - Task-Oriented Touch
touch when performing a task or procedure; skillful and gentle performance of a nursing procedure conveys security and sense of competence
Caring - Touch - Caring Touch
form of nonverbal communication, which successfully influences a pts comfort and security, enhances self-esteem, increases confidence of the caregivers and improves mental well-being; express in way you hild pts hand, give back massage, gently position pt
Caring - Touch - Protective Touch
protects nurse and/or pt; pt vies it either positively or negatively; most obious form is prevening an accend or fall; also kind of touch that protects the nurse emotionally (nurse withdraws or distances themselves from pt when nurse unable to tolerate su
Caring - Listening
critical component of nursing care and is necessary for meaningful interactions w/pt; planned and deliberate act in which listener is present and engages pt in nonjudgemental and accepting manner; inlcudes 'taking in' what pt says and interpreting and und
Knowing the Patient
comprises both the nurse's understanding of specific pt and their subsequent selection of interventions; 2 elements that facilitate knowing are continuity of care and clinical expertise; Clinical decision making involves various apsects of knowing the pat
Spritual Caring
spiritual health occurs when person finds balance between their own life values, goals, and belief systms and those of others; individual's beliefs and expectations have effects on the person's physical well-being; Spirituality offers sense of connectedne
Relieving Pain and Suffering
encompasses caring nursing actions that give a pt comfort, dignity, respect and peace; ensuring pt environment is clean and pleasant and includes personal items makes physical environement place that sooths and heals mind, body and spirit; human suffering
Family Care
caring for pt cannot occur in isolation from family; important to know family almost as thouroughly as you know pt; success w/interventions depends on their willingness to share info about pt, their acceptance and understanding of therapies, whether inter
Callenge of Caring
nurses torn between human caring model and task-oriented biomedical model and institutional demands that consume their practice; have increasingly less time to spend w/pts, making it much harder to know who they are; health care must become more holistic