Caring Flashcards
providing care vs caring: providing care
- techniques
- giving meds
- washing
providing care vs caring: caring
- having conversations
- getting to know your patients
- emotion behind giving care
- attitude
- taking time
caring
- not an emotional feeling
- a chosen action or response
- considering the individuals experiences
- giving of yourself with compassion and concern
providing care vs caring
- can provide care when being caring
- don’t have to be caring when providing care
6 C’s of caring
1) commitment
2) conscience
3) competence
4) compassion
5) confidence
6) comportment
commitment
- continuing care when things are difficult
- set standards for yourself
- mixing of ones desires and obligations and the deliberate choice to acts on it
conscience
- being guided by what you think is right
- morals/ethics
- form a sense of right and wrong
competence
- keeping up with changing world of medicine
- working within your scope
- knowing scope of professional/personal boundaries
compassion
- understanding feelings but not taking them on
- putting yourself in others shoes
- understanding feeling and doing something about it
- whole realm of sympathy, empathy, and compassion
confidence
- being sure of yourself
- be confident in yourself to be able to care for others
comportment
- demeanour
- dress
- language
- how you’re being perceived
- body language
empathy
- ability to be sensitive to communicate understanding of clients feelings
- ability to put yourself in clients shoes
sympathy
- when one person shares same feelings of another
- ex: when someone close is experiencing grief or loss
how nurses demonstrate caring
- taking interest in who they are as a person
- finding out what the experience means to them
- taking time to do little tasks to help with comfort
- respecting routine of client and adjusting accordingly
can caring be taught?
- skills than can be taught to be further developed
- have to practice it
components of therapeutic relationships (5)
- power
- trust
- respect
- professional intimacy
- empathy (not sympathy)
power
- having power over your client
- being able to advocate for them due to having the knowledge they don’t
- must develop trust through power imbalance
trust
- confidentiality
- trust that we will do what best for them
- trust that we are capable
respect
- a two way street
- respecting who they are as a person
- throughout hospital/health care providers
professional intimacy
- sharing info
- getting to know people at intimate level
- not crossing boundaries
standards for nurse client relationship
1) therapeutic communication
2) client centered care
3) maintaining boundaries
4) protection from harm
therapeutic communicatio
- RN uses wide range of communication strategies and interpersonal skills to establish, maintain, and terminate therapeutic nurse-client relationship
client centered care
- RN works with client to ensure all professional behaviours and actions meet therapeutic needs of client
maintaining boundaries
- RN is responsible and accountable for establishing and maintaining boundaries in therapeutic nurse-client relationship
