10 Caritas Processes

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Nursing is a profession that revolves around selfless caring for ill patients, their families and the community. Nurses and nursing students require certain personal values and characteristics to maintain the honourable reputation of the selfless nurses who have built up the profession. There have been many philosophies of caring implemented into the nursing practice to centre nurses’ thoughts onto the patient to create patient-centred care. One of these philosophies is Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring which includes 10 Caritas Processes. This essay will discuss two of the processes, introduce two Australian registered nurse standards and then align the processes to the corresponding standards to demonstrate how a nurse can implement the caritas into their daily tasks. On the whole, not only is it essential that a nurse holds strong personal values aligning with a philosophy of care, it is also essential that the nurse can implement these standards into everyday practice.
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As the scope of this essay covers only two of the 10 Caritas Processes, the two that will be discussed will be Caritas number four and Caritas number two, being developing authentic trusting relationships and being authentically present, respectively. First of all, …show more content…

Patients develop an opinion of the nurse within their first encounter (Doherty, M., & Thompson, H., 2014, p. 520). These types of opinions can be overcome by the nurse showing a genuine interest in the patient and a caring attitude (Berman et al., 2015, p. 527). Norman, V., Rossillo, K., and Skelton, K. (2016, p. 403) state that building a trusting relationship with patients helps the nurses to provide better care for their

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