Caring in Nursing
The statement:”In an age where the scientific and the technological are weighed heavily (and often favorably) in human progress, the need to emphasize the humanizing ingredient of compassion . . . is urgent” (Roach 1987, p. 61
You are required to adopt a position on this statement (agree or disagree/take a side) and construct an argument to support your case. Your argument must be supported with evidence from a variety of relevant information sources
This assignment asks Bachelor of Nursing students to adopt a position on a statement - an abbreviated quote from Roach (1987), constructing an argument supported by evidence from a variety of relevant information sources. This assignment will review literature pertaining to theoretical perspectives of nursing, arguing that while our society may be less caring, Registered Nurses, even though now university education are not less caring, than those who were hospital trained. They are however much more technically competent.
Shields (1991) reviewing Sister M. Simone Roach’s book "The human act of caring. A blueprint for the health professions" (1987) suggests that the central theme of Roach’s book is an analysis of how the practise of health care professionals and especially nurses has been affected by today’s society which places less value in caring by the individual as well as by the society. What Roach (1995) calls the ‘Postmodern Age’, Kellehear (2007) refers to as the ‘Cosmopolitan Age’, that is today’s society, where people live, and function in an internationalised world, with a global set of economic and social arrangements. Where “old social divisions and ranks characteristic of past societies such as location, gender, religion, ethnicity” and social class blend into each other (Kellehear, p.7).
The concept of the “five C 's” being compassion, competence, confidence, conscience, and, commitment developed as an attempt to answer the question "what is a nurse doing when they care?" (Roach, 1987,
You are required to adopt a position on this statement (agree or disagree/take a side) and construct an argument to support your case. Your argument must be supported with evidence from a variety of relevant information sources
This assignment asks Bachelor of Nursing students to adopt a position on a statement - an abbreviated quote from Roach (1987), constructing an argument supported by evidence from a variety of relevant information sources. This assignment will review literature pertaining to theoretical perspectives of nursing, arguing that while our society may be less caring, Registered Nurses, even though now university education are not less caring, than those who were hospital trained. They are however much more technically competent.
Shields (1991) reviewing Sister M. Simone Roach’s book "The human act of caring. A blueprint for the health professions" (1987) suggests that the central theme of Roach’s book is an analysis of how the practise of health care professionals and especially nurses has been affected by today’s society which places less value in caring by the individual as well as by the society. What Roach (1995) calls the ‘Postmodern Age’, Kellehear (2007) refers to as the ‘Cosmopolitan Age’, that is today’s society, where people live, and function in an internationalised world, with a global set of economic and social arrangements. Where “old social divisions and ranks characteristic of past societies such as location, gender, religion, ethnicity” and social class blend into each other (Kellehear, p.7).
The concept of the “five C 's” being compassion, competence, confidence, conscience, and, commitment developed as an attempt to answer the question "what is a nurse doing when they care?" (Roach, 1987,
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