Explain Why Nursing Is Caring

Nursing is Caring. A statement that is continuously being reminded to us student nurse However, this may be vague technically. To elaborate this statement Joyce Travelbee, a nursing theorist,with her Human-to-human relationship model proposed that the goal of nursing was to assist an individual, family,or community to prevent or cope with the experiences of illness or suffering and, if necessary, to find meaning in these experiences, with the ultimate goal being the presence of hope. She also stressed that caring is giving both sympathy and empathy to the patient or client or simply being compassionate.
Compassion is one of the core values that the UST College of Nursing tries to build within our personality for our future profession. A value
If there’s a need,it is possible. If we feel the compassion, we should have enough courage to do so. An act from compassion may be done in our own simple ways. If we are feeling down when we failed to do our job, don’t be. Because we still have the power of touch,a smile,a kind word,a listening ear,an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring that we all know and with these? We could at least turn their lives the other way around even for just a few hours,minutes or seconds.
There has to be passion for a true compassion. If we do really have the goal of having a good outcome out of compassion, there should not have any hidden agenda out of it. It may be a true compassion if you care. If we care, we will feel there need. And if ever we did knew there need, what are our plans to do the appropriate actions? Would we just let our feelings to be remain feelings? Or would we intervene a therapeutic actions for their need to be