Reshaping My Approach To Caring
Throughout my studies on the various specialized literature on caring, I have developed a widened perspective and a new appreciation for caring. This knowledge has improved and reshaped my approach to caring. As a nurse, I am considered a leader in my community and through leadership I am able to create change. As a transformed leader I have a deeper understanding of myself as caring and as a result am able to initiate change to the current system from an approach of healing and caring. Watson (2000) notes, “Transformed nurse leaders who walk the fourfold via represent hope and order, the other way for “leadership and the new science” (p, 511).
As a citizen of the global community, I am now equipped with the understanding of
advanced caring knowledge. I am able to better recognize and facilitate needs for caring. Through moral reasoning, I can acknowledge the importance of fairness, the need for justice and the results of duty (Summer, 2002). Morality is a key component of personal and professional self and it will support my efforts and obligation not just for an individual but their community. Upon entering the nursing world, in retrospect, I realized that I was immersed into a field that was equipped with its own language. I remember having a difficult time relaying and deciphering information pertaining patients. Since then, through my experiences, I have seemingly acquired the tongue of a nurse unknowingly while not quite understanding its effects. I now understand that it is unique to our profession. Our language is used to communicate our subjective and objective involvement in caring. Additionally, our unique language is considered as a form of technology. As technology advances so does the effort to objectively standardize our language in databases such as electronic charting (Purnell, 2001). Unfortunately, I believe this may lead to the omission of opportunities for nurses to express caring for the whole persons subjectively. Therefore, I anticipate a need to preserve an option for expressing nursing as caring, within the technological realm. It should include caring actions which supports and nurtures the wholeness of a person and integrate concepts from other languages to communicate and collaborate with others in the field (Purnell, 2001). The integrations of the various caring I have encountered, has helped prepare me as I continue to journey on becoming an advanced practice nurse practitioner and leader. Understanding that caring situations vary from person to person and that caring lived is only specific for that individual and their moment, has nurtured and altered my perspective in caring. I must consider that the first step in caring is establishment of a relationship grounded in consideration for the individuals needs with an ongoing objective to meet them (Summer, 2002) acknowledges that, “For thus relationship to develop, there has to be a sharing that facilitates the development of trust by the patient and that empowers and invigorates the nurse to continue to provide caring in nursing” (p. 11). From this relationship the goal of nurturing personhood and wholeness will be my ultimate goal (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 1997). By combining characteristics of my personal and professional self, I am now able to identify with individuals as being human beings (Summer, 2002) I am able to approach the discipline of nursing as being grounded in caring. This effective approach will facilitate my efforts in caring for the individual as a whole and not as a compartment of their sickness. (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 2002) emphasized “…Nursing as caring illuminates the possibility of fullness of nursing, centered on the person as a person rather than on task achievement” (p. 35).
As a citizen of the global community, I am now equipped with the understanding of
advanced caring knowledge. I am able to better recognize and facilitate needs for caring. Through moral reasoning, I can acknowledge the importance of fairness, the need for justice and the results of duty (Summer, 2002). Morality is a key component of personal and professional self and it will support my efforts and obligation not just for an individual but their community. Upon entering the nursing world, in retrospect, I realized that I was immersed into a field that was equipped with its own language. I remember having a difficult time relaying and deciphering information pertaining patients. Since then, through my experiences, I have seemingly acquired the tongue of a nurse unknowingly while not quite understanding its effects. I now understand that it is unique to our profession. Our language is used to communicate our subjective and objective involvement in caring. Additionally, our unique language is considered as a form of technology. As technology advances so does the effort to objectively standardize our language in databases such as electronic charting (Purnell, 2001). Unfortunately, I believe this may lead to the omission of opportunities for nurses to express caring for the whole persons subjectively. Therefore, I anticipate a need to preserve an option for expressing nursing as caring, within the technological realm. It should include caring actions which supports and nurtures the wholeness of a person and integrate concepts from other languages to communicate and collaborate with others in the field (Purnell, 2001). The integrations of the various caring I have encountered, has helped prepare me as I continue to journey on becoming an advanced practice nurse practitioner and leader. Understanding that caring situations vary from person to person and that caring lived is only specific for that individual and their moment, has nurtured and altered my perspective in caring. I must consider that the first step in caring is establishment of a relationship grounded in consideration for the individuals needs with an ongoing objective to meet them (Summer, 2002) acknowledges that, “For thus relationship to develop, there has to be a sharing that facilitates the development of trust by the patient and that empowers and invigorates the nurse to continue to provide caring in nursing” (p. 11). From this relationship the goal of nurturing personhood and wholeness will be my ultimate goal (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 1997). By combining characteristics of my personal and professional self, I am now able to identify with individuals as being human beings (Summer, 2002) I am able to approach the discipline of nursing as being grounded in caring. This effective approach will facilitate my efforts in caring for the individual as a whole and not as a compartment of their sickness. (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 2002) emphasized “…Nursing as caring illuminates the possibility of fullness of nursing, centered on the person as a person rather than on task achievement” (p. 35).