Discussion Questions
Care expressed and practiced in professional nursing models provides a way of looking at the nursing role from the aspect of care. It may seem excessive to consider aspects of caring and compassion in nursing. However, precisely because it IS nursing makes it crucial to our continual progress of defining and upholding one of our central professional principles.
Address each of these items:
- Reflect on a caring and compassionate experience with a patient or family encountered in your practice.
- How was your compassion demonstrated?
- What other ways do you wish you would have expressed caring?
- How does your thinking about compassion expand to include self and colleagues?
SOLUTION
Professor and Class
According to our textbook, “Caring is the interpersonal, compassionate offering of self by which the healthy nurse builds relationships with patients and their families while helping them meet their physical, emotional, and spiritual goals, for all ages, in healthcare settings, across the care continuum” (ANA, 2015). Giving care to the patient includes making sure that patients are comfortable with the environment, effective communication to gain the thrust of the patients so they can easily express their feelings, and problems.
While working as a registered nurse……………………………………
Please complete the iCARE Self-Assessment (Links to an external site.) and download for your own use and information. The self-assessment is not a graded item.
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