NSE 11A/B Chapter 6: NSE11A WEEK 6 TEXTBOOK NOTES.pdf
7 May 2015
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Caring is a central concept that is essential to the practice of nursing. Caring practices and expert knowledge are at the heart of competent nursing practice: when engaging patients in a caring and compassionate manner, therapeutic gains in health and well-being of patients are enormous. Caring re ects what matters to a person. Personal concern for another person, event or a thing provides motivation and direction. Through caring relationships, you obtain an understanding of the meaning of illness for for people to care the patient. Leininger stressed importance of understanding cultural caring behaviours and other cul: for effective caring, learn culturally speci c behaviours and words re ecting human tural aspects of care caring in different cultures. Preserves human dignity in technological, cure-dominated health care system. During single caring moment, nurse and patient may communicate to each other on level. Swanson studied patients and professional caregivers in effort to develop theory of caring applicable for nursing practice.
