WEEK1: OUR CARE CULTURE

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)

Discussion Questions

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?
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Please complete the iCARE Self-Assessment and download for your own use and information. The self-assessment is not a graded item.

Please use these required reference:

Required Reading

American Nurses Association. (2015). Nursing: Scope and standards of practice (3rd ed). 

pp. 1-19 and p. 24 (WOs 1, 2

Required Article

Stevens, K. R. (2013). The impact of evidence-based practice in nursing and the next big ideas. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 18(2). (WO 2)

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Reflect on A Caring, and Compassionate Experience with A Patient or Family Encountered in Your Practice When working at the healthcare facility offering hospice care, I realized that being compassion to the patient and the family is critical since it determines how well the patient responds to the healthcare services offered. I used various ways to show compassion, including; being emphatic that helped me better understand what the patient is going through. Secondly, I showed the interest to know patients’ history; this placed me in a position to understand the individual patient’s needs. Healthcare providers should be guided by Evidence-Based practice that integrates experience from the expertise, as well as showing respect to the cultural, and religious values of the patient (Stevens, 2013). The nurse should also embrace effective communication to help understand what the patients are going…