The definition of nursing is a profession or practice of taking care of the sick or the unable. It is the art and science of healing. The very core of nursing is putting the needs of others before your own. However, one very important question is oftentimes overlooked or never asked at all. Who takes care of the care giver?…
Collaborating Community Nursing and Faith Based Nursing Faith based nursing was previously known as parish community nursing due to its origins from Christian faith (Blais, 2015). However, the term faith based nursing was coined in order to accommodate nursing from other faiths apart from Christianity. In particular, faith based nursing placing emphasis on care and health promotion which is within the beliefs, values and practices of the faith community, individual or family served. Faith based nursing does not only refer to individual care, but promotion of health within the entire community. The fundamental principles that guide this mode of care are rooted on the theological standpoint that spiritual care has a connection with health and…
Holistic Care: An Integrative Approach to a Sense of Calling Jaelynne Loft Azusa Pacific University Holistic Care: An Integrative Approach to a Sense of Calling Holistic nursing is defined as “all nursing practice that has healing the whole person as its goal…This practice recognizes the totality of the human being - the interconnectedness of body, mind, emotion, spirit, social/cultural, relationship, context, and environment” (Thornton, 2015). The philosophy of care I want to utilize in my practice of nursing is one that encompasses a holistic approach to care and identifies each patient as unique and created in the image of God.…
Nurses may not like their patients, feel like being at work, or have a million other things going on in life, but they do their jobs. Nurses are bound to their patient’s needs. They follow the rules of…
It is a skill and nurses need to educate to restoring harmony in patients. Caring is an attitude, that professional nurses in hospitals need to be encouraged to research and consider as a lifelong process. The caring process that will reflect of the patient outcome and satisfaction (Clerico et al.,…
Values are characteristics that are the driving force to the nursing practice. Every nurse has a different list of values that they exhibit through their care and practice. By seeing different areas from the hospital and clinic, I was able to see different values in action. One of the foundations that the nursing profession is based upon is the value of caring.…
Introduction Concept Analysis, though a powerful tool, was only adapted to be used in nursing towards the end of the last Century. In 1986, Walker and Avant adapted the process, that John Wilson developed in 1960 for analyzing concepts, to be used in nursing (McEwen, 2014, p. 58). Prior to this time, there were no clear processes laid out to define the analysis of concepts in the nursing practice. Walker and Avant based their process “on Wilson’s method and clarified his methods so that graduate students could apply them to examine phenomena of interest to nurses” (McEwen, 2014, p. 58).…
They believe as individuals we should collectively as teams make strides to ensure that we provide safe, effective and compassionate care. This essay will follow Holland and Rees qualitative research framework (2010). This framework allows a critique of compassion as a key skill to nursing and as a feature of nurse education. This framework will afford insight into the quality…
An admission referral was received from another skilled nursing facility (SNF) for Mr. W. and the information was forthcoming about the prospective patient 's psychiatric and fall history. They even disclosed he had recent hallucinations and multiple falls which required them to have a one to one staff member with him while he was in bed and used a restraint to ensure his safety while out of bed. My Director of Nursing (DON) accepted this resident, scheduled the admission for Friday evening and did not inform the nursing staff of his high risk for fall. The nursing staff did receive a report from the SNF but it was too late to discuss whether or not this admission was appropriate for our facility because the DON had left for the day and…
Nursing goes beyond caring for a patient during their illness and managing their disease process. Nursing includes adapting to a patient’s and their family’s physical, social, spiritual, environmental and psychological needs. I believe in treating the whole patient and being supportive of the family’s needs as well. Shelly & Miller (2006) asserts “while critical thinking, decision making, and leadership skills are extremely important, the characteristics nurses need most are compassion, competence, faith, integrity and responsibility” (p. 291).…
Caring in Nursing Compassion and Caring Every individual has his/her own unique perception of caring. There are so many ways to show caring that the possibilities are endless. Nurses are often associated with caring because they support, comfort, and help the patient recover to the best of their ability. Their experiences dealing with different patients that have unique situations on a daily basis help them become better caregivers.…
Caring can be one of the most stressful parts of the nursing profession, it connects us to our patients emotionally and can cause us to take additional strain and stress on to ourselves in an effort to help out patients heal in…
Furthermore, caring is the primary focus and without caring there will be no degree of healing. American Nurses Association (2010) describes caring as continuously showing empathy and compassion for the patient. All aspects of caring delivered will heighten the ability of a nurse to perform effectively in providing optimum care in any situation. Nurses are the essential link in providing best care for the patient and assuring that the health care team adheres to the professional standards of practice. Therefore, providing a safe environment will help safeguard the patient from any harm.…
244). Shelly and Miller (2006) go on to say that “Christ-inspired nursing lies in its emphasis on caring for the whole person as embodied, respecting each person as created in the image of God” (p. 53). With these two concepts in mind, I can foster a deeper understanding of what my patient is suffering and better assist them in their health and integrate them into Henderson’s grand theory. There are, however, implications that would tend to limit the use of this theory at the bedside. The multidisciplinary approach to care can hinder implementing my practice the most.…
The Role of Nursing It is said that the nursing profession is one of the most respected and trusted careers there are. From the beginning, a nurse’s role was to nurture and mend those that are sick, frail and even through the process of end of life, but it doesn’t just stop there. Nursing has come a long way and entails many more aspects than they are even given credit for. A nurse wears many hats and is required to perform duties outside of healing obvious wounds.…