Purpose
This week’s graded topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO).
CO 1: Applies principles of nursing, theories, and the care philosophies to self, colleagues, individuals, families, aggregates and communities throughout the healthcare system. (PO 1)
Due Date
- During the assigned week (Sunday the start of the assigned week through Sunday the end of the assigned week):
- Posts in the discussion at least two times, and
- Posts in the discussion on two different days
Points Possible
50 points
Directions
- Discussions are designed to promote dialogue between faculty and students, and students and their peers. In discussions students:
- Demonstrate understanding of concepts for the week
- Integrate outside scholarly sources when required
- Engage in meaningful dialogue with classmates and/or instructor
- Express opinions clearly and logically, in a professional manner
- Use the rubric on this page as you compose your answers.
- Best Practices include:
- Participation early in the week is encouraged to stimulate meaningful discussion among classmates and instructor.
- Enter the discussion often during the week to read and learn from posts.
- Select different classmates for your reply each week.
Care expressed and practiced in professional nursing models provides a way of looking at the nursing role from the aspect of care. It may seem excessive to consider aspects of caring and compassion in nursing. However, precisely because it IS nursing makes it crucial to our continual progress of defining and upholding one of our central professional principles.
Address each of these items:
- Reflect on a caring and compassionate experience with a patient or family encountered in your practice.
- How was your compassion demonstrated?
- What other ways do you wish you would have expressed caring?
- How does your thinking about compassion expand to include self and colleagues?
Please complete the iCARE Self-Assessment (Links to an external site.) and download for your own use and information. The self-assessment is not a graded item.
SOLUTION
Nurses must aim to provide compassionate care to their patients. According to American Nursing Association (2015), compassionate care makes patients feel more comfortable when they are ill when they are in pain, and/or when they are suffering. Compassionate care also extends to families. In my practice, I demonstrate compassionate care to my patients on a daily basis. I have been caring for Covid-19 patients for the last 9 months. Compassionate care is important especially during the Covid-19 pandemic where lives are being lost and families are left in despair. for the last couple of months, I have shown compassionate care to patients as well as their families. I have made them feel that I understand whatever they are going through and assured them that I will provide the best care possible. Other ways I think I would have demonstrated compassionate care to the patients are showing personal interest and developing therapeutic relationships with them. Having small conversations regarding the patient’s life is critical in building trust and consequently, helps in developing therapeutic relationships (Zamanzadeh et al., 2018). Nonetheless, due to the high number of Covid-19 patients, it was not possible to have light conversations with most of the patients as I had to attend to all the patients during my shift. Please click the purchase to access the entire copy at $5