Question

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 provide references of sources used

Answer 1

Compassion is the care provided to the patient through empathy , kindness, love , respect and dignity. One  of my experience in hospital were , compassion and care provided to a patient who met with an accident and lost his lower limbs . He was so depressed. When I entered for the first visit to the room , he was with a depressed face. I just entered to the room with positive warm smile . Talk with that patient with kind voice . He started to talk and share his sorrow with me . I just supported him and explained various examples with him who has overcome from the same situation . These positive words made him strong and he was happy . He was ready to face his new life . If we talk with patient with care and love they will feel some support , they feel like they are not alone . We want to make their feelings as ours .

When we are communicating with a patient or family we should ;

Make eye contact

Smile

use kind voice

Be positive

warm touch

Listen to your patient

*Reference : journal of compassionate health care