Caring, Comforting, and Communicating PDF

Objectives 1.Understand the role of caring, comfort, and communication in patient-centered care. 2.Identify strategies to implement these principles in daily practice. 3.Explore the impact of these practices on patient outcomes and satisfaction. 4.Recognize barriers to effective implementation and...

Objectives 1.Understand the role of caring, comfort, and communication in patient-centered care. 2.Identify strategies to implement these principles in daily practice. 3.Explore the impact of these practices on patient outcomes and satisfaction. 4.Recognize barriers to effective implementation and discuss potential solutions.  Communication: is the process by which human meet their needs, build relationship and express feel. Comforting: is the process by which the nurse assist client and significant others to face the illness and discomfort Caring: intentional action that conveys physical and emotional security and genuine, connectedness with another person or group of people. Caring Caring…. Caring is a dimension of human relating, and often referred to as the art of nursing. Caring is central to all helping professions, and enables people to create meaning in their lives. Caring is sharing deep and genuine concern about the welfare of another person.  Communication is a critical skill for nursing It used to gather assessment data, and and comfort Comforting is the process by which to face the distresses of illness and hospitalization PROFESSIONALIZATION OF CARING Caring practice involves connection, mutual recognition, and involvement between nurse and client. The following examples of caring, emerging from nursing situations: A client experiencing postoperative pain is given medication to control her symptoms, and then the nurse talks quietly and holds her hand for a few minutes as the pain resolves. The nurse’s presence, in itself, provides comfort for the client. After the student nurse washes the hair of an older woman who is immobilized and applies her makeup, she helps the woman into a wheelchair to communicate her daughter and grandchildren. The woman is extremely grateful and her sense of dignity is enhanced by this personal care.  Caring…. Caring is considered by many nursing theorists and nurses as an essential aspect of nursing leininger (1984) says: “There can be no cure without caring, but that there may be caring without curing.”  Cure and Treatment The term "cure" means that, after medical treatment, the patient no longer has that particular condition anymore. Some diseases can be cured. Others, like hepatitis B, have no cure. The person will always have the condition, but medical treatments can help to manage the disease  Definitions Curing necessary to restore the health in a physiological sense and with a direct impact on life expectancy. Caring The art, and science of professional caring is not only central to nursing but is also complementary to the science of curing  Caring VS Curing…. Most HCP ) Health Care provider( consider ‘curing’ as the most important aspect of their task, partly because they are well trained in the matter. For most ‘technical interventions’, there is available evidence on (measurable) outcomes, avoiding the need for ‘personal involvement’.  CARING – Feeling or showing care and sympathy – Social Welfare of or relating to professional social or medical care CURE. – Restoration of health; recovery from disease. – A method or course of medical treatment used to restore health. – Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation – To restore to health. – To remove or cure (something harmful or disturbing).  Caring… The ‘caring’ approach shifts the focus from ‘quantity’ to ‘quality’ of life. As quality of life is a subjective matter, it is not easily converted to ‘objective’ scores. Raising “care” to the level of “cure” in the value system of the HEALTH  Caring… Caring include: helpful, supportive, and facilitative acts toward or for another individual or group with evident or anticipated needs  Caring behaviors include comfort, , interest, coping behavior, empathy, enabling, facilitating, helping behaviors, love, presence, tenderness, stress comfort, touch, trust, and…….lots of other health maintenance acts  Outcome of caring: promote self actualization promote individual growth preserve human dignity and worth augment self healing relive distress  Comforting…. Is characteristic unique to nursing and an essential aspect of communication The comforting process is client led process because it occurs in response of cues presented by the client  Comfort is not a passive process on part of client Clients actively engage in increasing their personal comfort Nurses support clients’ own attempt to achieve comfort Comfort measures… It require knowledge and skills specific to the client’s medical and nursing problems Communication strategies enhance comfort Those strategies such as empathy, positive self talk, therapeutic touch, competent physical and technical skills Communication  Communicating… The interchange of information between two or more people, it is more; it is exchange of ideas and thoughts It uses talking and listening Thoughts are conveyed to others by spoken words and also by gestures or body actions  It is mean exchanging information or feeling between two or more people. It has two main purposes: to influence others and to obtain information The communication process Sender Massage Receiver Response Sender: A person or grope how wishes to convey massage to another. Massage: What is actually said or written Talking face to face with person may be more effective in some instance than telephone or writing massage Receiver: The listeners who must listen observe and attend. This person is a decoder. ineffective communications occur when the massage sent is misinterpreted by the receiver Response: It is the massage that the receiver retrains to sender It is also called feed back, can either verbal or non verbal