Reflection On Relationship Centered Care

Introduction This week’s competency is no. 7 - A competent nurse practices relationship-centered care (OCNE, 2013). This week I was at the medical floor at Mercy and the client I focused on was someone with several complications, not to mention unable to speak for himself and confined to his bed. I was very interested in his profile and I thought it was my opportunity to challenge myself. Using the competency between the client and myself was difficult because of the situation, however, I was able to make a relationship-centered care with the client’s wife. The client’s wife was also the decision-maker and she’s by his side day and night. Although it seemed that the wife was difficult to work with because she basically did everything for him regardless of the physician’s orders, this did not stop me from creating a working relationship with her. In the dimensions of competency no.7, a competent nurse creates

There is always a compromise. This is what I mean when I say I do not think there is only one way of achieving the goal. We have to make connections and we need to enjoy what we are doing in order to thrive. There is a quote I have always believed in – “No man is an island.” As I researched where it came from, I found The University of Adelaide Library online and learned that the phrase is actually a part of a prose by John Donne entitled Devotions upon Emergent Occasions published in 1624. The message of the quote, “No man is an island” in the prose says that every human is a part of a whole, of the world, and of one another that any human death or trouble affects another (Donne, 1624). In connection to our competency for this week, I believe that the job of a nurse is to care for the client and the family holistically and this is best achieved if there has already been a trust established between client/family and the nurse. The nurse cannot do everything by