parient center care pt 1

Patient-Centered Care

  • Definition: The act of nurturing another person to whom one feels commitment or responsibility.

Watson's Theory of Human Caring

  • Overview: A model in client care emphasizing holistic mind-body-spirit healing.
  • Characterization:
    • Involves 'caring moments' where the nurse and the client connect on a human level.
    • Focuses on transpersonal caring and the Caritas process.
  • Goal: To assist the client in achieving an elevated level of harmony among mind, body, and spirit.

Watson's Caritas Process

  • Definition: Ten caring processes that provide a common language to guide nurses in recognizing and maximizing caring moments specific to their practice.
    1. Embrace: Loving kindness
    2. Inspire: Faith and hope
    3. Trust: Foster a transpersonal self
    4. Nurture: Build relationships
    5. Forgive: Move past grievances
    6. Deepen: Cultivate creative self
    7. Balance: Encourage learning
    8. Co-create: Engage in the Caritas field
    9. Minister: Act with humanity
  1. Open: Embrace infinity

Swanson's Theory of Caring

  • Overview: Addresses caring in the profession of nursing and its impact on improving client well-being.
  • Focus: Helps nurses promote client empowerment, respect, and dignity.
  • Five Caring Processes:
    1. Knowing: Maintaining belief in others, which includes faith in God or a higher power.
    2. Being: Physically and emotionally present with another person to provide comfort.
    3. Doing for: Performing tasks or activities for the client, demonstrating an enabling attitude.
    4. Enabling: Guiding clients through situations and events.
    5. Maintaining belief: Recognizing the importance of faith in relationships.

Caring Behaviors

  • Key behaviors associated with caring in nursing include:
    • Listening
    • Touch
    • Being present
    • Providing comfort
    • Showing compassion

Client Preferences

  • Three ways to support client preferences:
    1. Endorsing participation in care decisions.
    2. Promoting client understanding of care processes.
    3. Sharing relevant information effectively.

Culturally Competent Care

  • Definition: The application of evidence-based nursing congruent with the preferred cultural values, beliefs, worldviews, and practices of the client.
  • Acculturation: The process of sharing and learning cultural traits or social patterns from another group.

Elements of Cultural Competency

  1. Cultural Awareness: Recognizing and understanding one's own cultural influences.
  2. Cultural Knowledge: Gaining knowledge about other cultures.
  3. Cultural Skill: Developing the ability to assess and address cultural dynamics in care.
  4. Cultural Encounters: Engaging in interactions with culturally diverse individuals.
  5. Cultural Desires: The motivation to engage and learn about diverse cultures in a meaningful way.