NSE 11A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 31: Three Steps, Compassion Fatigue, Vending Machine
26 Apr 2019
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Chapter 31 : response of compassion: compassion is central to care, practice nursing with compassion means to suffer with pts, turning from compassion is to abandon th pt, increase pt loneliness and suffering. Ie: in the story of jana and margaret-- jana did not simply understand that margaret wanted tpn but she felt her longing for reconciliation with her daughter -- thus. Jana entered into and became a part of margaret"s experience: third step: the desire to do something about the pt"s suffering -- seek to alleviate or support the pt. In compassionate embrace of the dark side of reality, we become bearers of the light. Inarticulate - the sufferer often expresses his suffering through silent withdrawal, moans, groans, or tortured cries - compassionate nurse enters the pt"s suffering in respectful silence. Impt for the nurse to remmeber, empathy comes form a recognition that regardless of gender, ethnicity, temperament or behaviour, nurses have in common with all pts, the.
