Summary Of Caring In Nursing

Summarize: The article describes how hospitals must keep up with financial viability while attending to the values of caring that are implicit when dealing with suffering, vulnerable human beings. The author states that compassionate nursing care is the most influential dimension of patient intentions to return or recommend a facility to others. While a patient may not ever have the medical need to return to a facility, they will always have a story to tell about their hospital experience. As applied to nurses and nursing work environments, work-related stress detracts from nurse caring and failure to meet the psychological needs of nurses in the workplace could lead to poor outcomes.

Assess: The article discusses how nurse caring is a quality

Caring in nursing is a process in which one uses caring behaviors consisting of attitudes and actions to promote the well-being of another, one learns caring behaviors through educational experiences, and self-awareness is essential to the learning process. Caring as a developmental process by which an individual develops sufficient knowledge of another to respond to the needs of the other in a caring way. Nurses need to remember to care for self to be able to care for others.

Summarize: This article discusses how developing self-compassion is vital for avoiding compassion fatigue and promotes compassion satisfaction as it enables the caregiver to deal with close contact with the other person’s suffering. Compassionate care is an interpersonal phenomenon where the caregiver connects with the patient as a unique person with unique experiences.

Assess: This article discusses how being aware of oneself facilitates compassionate care as it enables the caregiver to deal with one’s own reactions. Compassionate care relates to being touched by the other’s situation as a fellow being with a shared humanity and being committed to act to relieve suffering and fulfill the patient