CARING

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CARING

• Universal Phenomenon Central to Nursing Practice

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Caring Is

• Central to Nursing Practice
• Essential to helping client reach positive
  outcomes
• Universal Phenomenon
• Expressions, processes and patterns vary among
  cultures

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Caring and the Nurses Role

• Nurses must focus on building a relationship that
  allows them to learn what is important to their
  clients
• Caring protects, enhances, and preserves human
  dignity

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Ethic of Care

• Concerned with relationships between people and
  with a nurses character and attitude toward
  others.

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Caring Behaviors

• Providing presence
• Touch
• Listening
• Knowing the client
• Spiritual caring
• Family care

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Providing Presence

• Person to person encounter that conveys a
  closeness and a sense of caring
• being there
• being available
• Behaviors
• Eye contact, body language, voice tone,
  listening, positive and encouraging attitude

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Touch

• Nurse reaches out to convey concern and support
• Contact
• Non-contact (e.g., eye contact)
• Types of touch
• Task oriented
• Caring
• Protective
• Must know if client accepts touch and how they
  interpret touch

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Listening

• Key element
• Conveys nurses full attention and interest
• taking in what client says and interpreting and
  understanding what is said

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Knowing the Client

• Understanding of the client and choice of
  appropriate interventions
• Behaviors
• Avoids assumptions
• Focuses on client
• Engages in caring relationship with client that
  reveals information and cues that facilitate
  critical thinking and clinical judgement

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Spiritual Caring

• Finding a balance between ones own values,
  goals, and belief systems and those of others

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Family Care

• Cannot care for an individual without also caring
  for the family
• Family serves as important resource
• Success of care/interventions often depends upon
  family acceptance and support
• Families need to be active participants

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Benefits of Caring

• Nurses that see themselves as caring achieve
  meaning and purpose to their lives.
• Caring motivates many to become nurses and is a
  source of satisfaction when outcomes are positive

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Challenges of Caring

• Increasingly more difficult to care in todays
  health care system
• Caring must become more humanizing
• Nurses must become committed to caring and
  willing to establish personal, compassionate, and
  meaningful relationships