5. Expressing positive and negative feelings and emotions
6. Creative, individualized, problem-solving caring process
7. Transpersonal teaching-learning
8. Supportive, protective, and/or corrective, mental, physical, societal, and spiritual environment.
9. Humans need assistance
10. Existential-phenomenological and spiritual forces
The ten factors should be taught to the students throughout their learning process as nursing students. Students in today’s world may not grow up with the same values and respect for the patients as the patients grew up with for their elders. However, the fact remains that to be good productive nurses a caring process should be learned and used when caring for their patients. Caring means that the students
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Furthermore Aultman’s students are taught to respect the values stated by the core curriculum by attendance, and dress codes, and others mentioned in their catalogs. The classroom setting is where the focus of caring is best demonstrated by the instructors. The instructors instill caring as a value and demonstrate caring to their students. Instructors teach the caring values, respect that the students need to have for their patients. Students are taught to have caring relationship, and to respect the patient’s faith even when it differs from the patient’s choices. Students are taught to support each other and to work in small groups to problem solve and learn essential elements that will help them to care for their patients. Students are taught to support their patients emotional, mental, and physical needs. Students are also taught to respect other cultures and to objective respect their cultural expression of their faith. Students are also taught ways to best care for their own personal needs and to achieve learning and knowledge when possible. Caring is essential for a patient’s satisfaction and in some incidence determines the best outcome for the patient’s health and well-being (Dudkiewicz, 2014). Students should be taught to care for the patient and to care for themselves also (Clerico et al., 2013). Caring in today’s classroom should be taught and expected from the students in their care of the needs of the patient and
The clinical setting can be terrifying for a nursing student. Nursing students are not only concerned about properly caring for patients, but they have just as much concern regarding the techniques of how to properly address patients and their families in a manner which conveys the care and concern they wish to possess when they become registered nurses. Certainly, heightened levels of anxiety may inhibit a student nurse’s ability to make sound judgment calls with regard to appropriate nursing interventions (Foley, 2016).
Leo Buscaglia once said, “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” In the field of nursing, this concept could not be illustrated more profoundly. The trait of caring within nursing is arguably the most important trait that a nurse could possess. It can be defined in various ways, but to me, caring is the act of being moved or compelled to action by feelings of compassion, empathy, sympathy, anger, intention, sadness, fear, happiness, protection, enlightenment, or love in light of another human being. There are many aspects to the term “caring”. It is an ever-present shape shifter, swiftly
...ves with practice, it is important for students to gain knowledge about the skill and use them when on clinical placements. Learning these skills will also prepare the student nurses in future to delegate task when they qualify and become RN’s. In relation to my nursing practice, when I become a registered nurse, I will assist student nurses in their career by delegating tasks to them that are within their level of competence as well as making sure that all tasks assigned to them are duly supervised and follow up on the delegated task. I will encourage them to seek clarification where necessay. Providing feedback and praising them for work well done is another thing I would bring into my practice. I will equally inform them through feedback of any task which did not work well and show them areas where they need to improve upon.
It is important that students have the ability of being competent in a clinical setting. To be deemed competent in skills according to nursing regulations and requirements. This is a challenging factor for many students, as they enter transition period. This is due to students feel they do not have the desired clinical competency that promotes the skills and authorities of a registered nurse (Harsin, Soroor & Soodabeh, 2012). Clinical research studies have found that students do have the required expected levels of knowledge, attitude and behaviour’s. However, the range of practical skills aren’t sufficient for the range of practice settings (Evans, 2008). This research has also found that other evidenced based studies found that competency in nursing skills is still lacking (Evans, 2008). These skills are lacked by students and newly graduated nursing how are in the first or second year of
Caring is the biggest aspect in the nursing field. Aspiring nurses choose to become nurses because they want to care for people in ways that most professions cannot do. Without caring nursing would not be the field it is today. The culture of caring involves intervening programs that help to build caring behaviors among nurses. As nurses become stressed and become down on their life it has shown that caring for oneself before others is key in caring for patients. Lastly, throughout the years many theorists have proven that caring has come from many concepts and ideas that relate directly to ICU nursing.
Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring. Since its establishment as a profession more than a century ago, nursing has been a source for numerous debates related to its course, methods and development of nursing knowledge. Many nursing definitions and theories have evolved over time. Furthermore, it is in a constant process of being redefined.
During nursing school, we learn a lot about physical conditions that affect people. In clinicals, the majority of our time is spent in a hospital setting. It is important for student nurses to learn about all things
There are several professional values that a nurse must possess altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justices are among these. Altruism is being concerned for the well-being and welfare of others; this includes their patients and colleagues. This is demonstrated daily through understanding cultural differences, considering the perspectives of others and mentoring others
Undergraduate students will apply the reflective practice of learning objectives in a hospital-based setting in order to instill a more focused assessment on the emphasis on a profound human connection in a clinical setting. More importantly, a practical, meaningful approach of reflective, strategic measures will promote achievable outcomes for student engagement, nevertheless, health care promotion concentrated on humanistic care. Moreover, competencies related to human flourishing will be established through the involvement on family support, patient experience, and community commitment (NLN, 2010). Therefore, undergraduate students require didactic practicum that challenges the professional nurse towards the achievements of quality care
I believe placing student nurses in the clinical setting is vital in becoming competent nurses. Every experience the student experiences during their placement has an educative nature therefore, it is important for the students to take some time to reflect on these experiences. A specific situation that stood out to me from my clinical experience was that; I didn’t realize I had ignored the patient’s pain until I was later asked by the nurse if the patient was in any pain.
Although a values set which includes love, honesty, goodness, kindness, self-control, and peace seem non-controversial, identifying those values with Christianity makes them controversial. It is important professionally to be sensitive to others, colleagues or patients, while not compromising one’s own values and creating distress. Recognizing that I personally and professionally provide an example of standards valuable to the nursing profession is important on this journey to advanced practice nursing. I do enjoy the time that I spend with those who believe and behave similar to me, but I also enjoy providing compassion and kindness to those who believe and behave differently, whether those differences are based on culture, religion, age, or life
Nursing contains many aspects of professionalism. Appearance, responsibility, respect, and attitude are a few components that contribute to what makes a patient feel comfortable when dealing with nursing professionals. But, what about caring? Caring is also an important aspect of professionalism in the nursing field. If a patient does not feel a nurse or medical professional cares about them on an individual bases, they may not be willing to be as open and honest about what their ailments are. Which poses a problem; how can a nurse take “care” of a patient if he or she is not willing to divulge what is wrong? Secondly, listening is also another part that contributes to professionalism in the nursing environment.
Although patient education involves providing patients with information, in order to be effective, patient education must also improve patient teaching. Legal and accreditation mandates as we well as professional nursing standards of practice include patient education as an important activity expected to be carried out in the delivery of high quality care. For nurses to fulfill the role of teacher of patients and family members, nurses must have a solid foundation on the principles of teaching and learning. The nurse should act as a facilitator, creating situations that motivate individuals to want to learn and that make it possible for them to learn (Bastable, 2006).
According to Kristen Swanson’s theory of caring, caring consists of Knowing, Being with, Doing for, Enabling, and maintaining belief. She believes that the environment and what is in the environment can affect people, either positively or negatively. As a nursing student, I possess the qualities of enabling, doing for, and being with. These qualities are implanted in me via my upbringing, culture, religious belief, and life experience/encounters(my environment). “Enabling” is the nurses’ responsibility to help the make a transition into the unknown.
A nurse, who is knowledgeable and confident, respectful and trustworthy, who has a personal approach for each of the patients and advocate for them, who can put herself or himself in the patients’ place, is a caring nurse. Of course, it is not very easy and there are many challenges, but if the nurses can work hard and always try to provide the best caring experience, they can succeed and be professionally satisfied. There is also another question that I couldn’t find the answer yet: how do we measure the caring? Is there any way we can know that we provide enough care? This can be the topic of my future