Domain of Nursing Practice
What is Caring? Caring can be described in many different ways. One demonstration of caring is when a nurse at a hospital helps those who are physically ill become well again. Caring also practices involvement in the connection, mutual recognition and involvement between nurse and client. “The Community Health Nursing: Caring in Action” (1999) defines “those assistive, enabling, supportive, or facilitative behaviors toward or for another individual or group to promote health, prevent disease, and facilitate healing”(p.6). Another definition from another author such as (Harkreader, 2000) wrote, sees caring as a universal behaviour observed in human beings and influenced by Society, culture, values and gender”(p.1450). Thus, nurses would …show more content… Domain of Nursing Practice
It is a good way of showing patients that you are there and they will know you are present during their stay and recovery. This would demonstrate presence and how its important to their patients. As a result, nurses could also demonstrate the touch factor as a comforting approach to reach out and support by making contact with the patients and letting them know you are there. Another way to demonstrate caring is through the listening factor. The listening factor demonstrates caring by bringing the nurse’s full attention and interest to the patient, creating trust and having communication between you and the patient. As an example, for nurses to have relevance, adaptability, humor, good posture and facial expressions toward their patients. It also involves reaching out to other individuals of the patient, such as their family members or close friends as it can be difficult at times taking in patient information. All these various duties are performed on a daily basis by nurses as caregivers. Nurse as a caregiver Caregiving is one of the ethical concepts of nursing practice. Historical nurses and nurses of today play an important role as caregivers. Over thousands of years, nurses have been the ideal professional health care workers involved in giving care to the poor and sick populations. Domain of Nursing Practice
