how the nurse is able to manipulate the emotions of the patients at the ward and…
After leaning about each concept in Nursing 201 I have become more competent than before about the profession of nursing in areas such as evidence based practice, patient centered care and many other areas. I think after learning about patient centered care and the nurse-patient communication I am better prepared to interact with patients. Some things that I find to be especially helpful are to not ask close-ended questions or anything that will result in a simple yes or no, use general leads, use silence and to paraphrase and reflect what the patient says.…
Compassion fatigue is not a new concept. As long as individuals have needed help, people have come to the rescue. Originally it was identified in social workers, as they see sad, sometimes devastating situations that they must deal with on a daily basis. In 1992, Joinson identified the concept of compassion fatigue in nursing. According to Potter, Deshields, Divanbeigi, Berger, Cipriano, Norris & Olsen, (2010), Joinson identified behaviors that were characteristic of compassion fatigue, including chronic fatigue, irritability, dread going to work, aggravation of physical ailments, and a lack of joy in life. Dr. Charles Figley expanded on the concept and more formally defined compassion fatigue in 1995. Figley explained compassion fatigue as…
Their expressions,angers.Their up sides and down sides,their good days and bad days.Their frustrations concerns their agresives attitudes to ward the nurse in spite of all,the nurse has the duty to do his or her job in at the same level or even deeper,showing compassion in concern to the patient.…
The controversial topic has been subject of different studies after it was first formulated by Salovey and Mayer(1990). However, tit was not until the psychology and science journalist Daniel Coleman published his best seller Emotional Intelligence (1995), that the subject became polemical.…
My passion for nursing grew when I was a child, because my grandfather was a nurse. I appreciate the love and gratitude his clients exhibited as a sign of reward from them been cured from their ailment, after receiving their treatment from him. I also see the trust they have in him that they confide in him for everything regarding their health. When I reminisce about this, I feel overjoyed because I see this everyday at my…
Nursing is closely related with caring because you cannot be a successful nurse if you do not demonstrate any emotion/compassion to your patient. We as professionals should understand that nursing involves caring for everyone regardless of what they believe in, what mistakes they have committed, or what they look like. Being a nurse is such an honorable profession because we are the person who helps patients get through tough situations. Nursing is integrated into the nursing practice because the relationship built between the patient and nurse is initialized by the patient feeling cared for. In order for a patient to allow you to administer any medications, injections, or other healthcare treatments, the patient must trust that you are treating them with the same care you would if they were a loved one.…
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify and manage the emotions of others and your own. While in the field of nursing it is vital you use your emotional intelligence skills to understand the emotions of a patient and utilize these perceptions to manage patient situations to be able to give effective patient care. Emotional Intelligence has become more and more of a focus element for having the skills to be a nurse, and is more important in the nursing profession then it was before. The types of skills that are most valuable to those who provide both professional care and compassionate comfort would be being able to be clear and direct. Also to have self-awareness, being able to recognize and do self-management and always be assertive.…
Stress is a part of everyday life for health professionals such as nurse’s physicians and hospital administrators. Review of literature has revealed that there are various factors responsible for stress among nurses working in hospital areas. Role workload, role ambiguity, role conflict, group and political pressures, responsibility for persons, under participation, powerlessness, poor peer relations, intrinsic impoverishment, low status, strenuous working conditions, unprofitability of learning on job and inappropriate feedback to be significant predictors of occupational stress among nurses. Nurses with high levels of personal accomplishment perceived a significantly lesser degree of stress. Nurses…
If you ask anyone in the field of healthcare, they will tell you that nursing is a very demanding profession. Many nurses feel weighed down by the emotional and physical demands of their chosen career. They may feel that their efforts go without acknowledgement. They may feel overwhelmed by their workload and feel they do not have adequate support or recourses to confidently and efficiently perform their roles. Part of the nurse’s role is to exhibit compassion for patients and their family members. Yet, compassion is an emotion that requires inner conviction…
Alasad, Jafar, Muayyad Ahamad, Nazir Abu, and Huthaifa Ahmad. Nursing Students’ Experiences in Critical Care Course: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Intensive and Critical Care 1.3(2015): 1-7. Print.…
Frustration. That’s the first word that pops into me head every time I go to clinical. Day after day, being pushed out the way. It made me feel unworthy and stupid. Everybody is getting paired up nurses, while I—I just get to stay on the floor and do mediocre work. Yay. Why aren’t I getting paired with a nurse? Highest achieving student in my nursing class and everyone under the sun, except for me, gets to be with a nurse. I feel incredible anger when I think of why. Under these circumstances, I have been forced to take it out on myself. I keep interrogating my brain, racking my mind for possible causes of this injustice. I must not kid myself, I guess I’m more “book smart” than practical coordinated, but I still deserve a chance.…
“The part of this job that I find the most satisfying is being able to watch the children that I treat, grow and have healthy lifestyles” (Thorn). One difficulty that these nurses constantly have to deal with is watching their patients, usually children, suffer. They must learn to overcome their emotions in order to give the medical treatment necessary to help people. “Emotional stability is necessary to successfully cope with suffering diseases, emergencies and various other stress-inducing scenarios in children” (What Skills Does a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Need?” 1). According to a real Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, “some personal qualities or abilities that are important to be successful in this job are good communication skills, critical thinking, and good people skills” (Thorn). Nurses must have good communication skills in order to work with co-workers, such as ¨doctors and other healthcare professionals¨ (¨Summary¨ 1) and patients. Critical thinking is a huge factor when a nurse's time is limited. Some illnesses must be treated immediately and so nurses must make quick and logical decisions. Good people skills are essential in this career without it; one's work flow would be very difficult. “The thought of helping people motivates me to stay despite these difficulties” (Thorn). There are many struggles in this career, but without…
There are relationships that are developed between nursing and patients throughout the course of treatment. When patients die, nurses tend to experience an overwhelming sense of grief and loss. A survey was designed for nurses who worked in a magnet designed hospital in the northeastern United States. It was stated that most nurses ignore their feelings which can lead to physical, emotions, and spiritual exhaustion. This article was based on interventions for oncology nurses to recognize and combat the chronic grief and compassion fatigue. There were interventions developed to allow time and opportunities for grieving that involved remembrance ceremonies. The…
This was instilled in me from my family upbringing. In the nursing profession you need to have an overwhelming amount of compassion and caring for your patients and their families. You are not only caring for the patient’s physical health, but also their emotional needs. For example this semester in clinical we are on a palliative/oncology floor, which is quite different than the previous semesters of clinical where we have been doing more acute care. With palliative care or chronically ill patients, there are a lot of complicated emotional issues that need to be recognized and addressed by the health care professional. I found that these patients, once you build a rapport and trust, are the more humble and neat patients to work with. We spend a lot of our time just talking to them about life and their interests and although we are still taking care of their medical needs, we are supporting them emotionally more often than not. In order to do this kind of nursing you must have a lot of empathy and…