Question

When Mr. James was dying, Betsy was sick and decided not to go to Mr. James' home. She later regretted her decision. Post your responses to the questions below. You have the option of responding to the weekly discussions in video, audio, or written form.

• What do you think the limits are to caring for others, or ARE there any limits?
• When is it right to put your needs ahead of the patient's needs? How do we balance our needs with the needs of our patients?
  
• How do you think you can avoid burnout as a nurse?
  
• Post an insightful question related to this discussion.

  

2.Think about yourself and reflect on how you would describe yourself to someone who didn't know you:

• I would describe myself in regards to personal traits as:
  
• The personal characteristics that I like about myself and that I bring to nursing are:
  
• Are there any personal characteristics about yourself that you are concerned will hinder caring for others?
  
• Share a personal story illustrating how the above identified characteristics have helped you in the past when facing a difficult situation

Answer 1

Answer: The nursing profession is a kind of life long learning process as well as nurses try to indulge themselves to provide quality of care to the patients. But it can be only possible when the nurses themselves have good mental and physical condition. So, there can be limit of caring. One should look towards themselves before taking care of others.

It is necessary that one should be fit and fine to take care of the patients. So, nurse can limit the care and give preference to themselves in the matter of health.

This is because if the nurse will have good health, she will be able to take better care of the patients. There would be no risk of medical error as well as quality of care can be provided.

Burnout can be avoided by reducing the working hours, Maintaining good health and indulging ourselves in good lifestyle and healthy eating.