I talk to my patients and their families about balanced diets, physical activities, fresh air, and having close personal relationships are in regards to health and balance. According to Jordan mindfulness is “as an individual learning process characterized by a heightened awareness of the specific circumstances in a given situation”(2009, p. 168). Mindfulness allows me to deliver safe and effective care to my patients. Being mindful is vital to my nursing practice. “Today’s healthcare environment is turbulent, rapidly presenting nurses with stimuli, interruptions, and competing priorities.
| 1. | A desire to understand the true state of human affairs | | 2. | An emphasis on formal measurement | | 3. | A reliance on external evidence collected through the senses | | 4. | Utility to the nursing profession | 2.5 points Question 4 Evidence-based nursing primarily uses which of the following to answer clinical questions?
A family who has to make any choice, whether it be palliative or “full steam ahead”, in the presence of a terminal situation for their loved one, is brave. As healthcare practitioners, we need to honor and respect the difficult decisions made for our patients by their families no matter what our personal and professional experience “tells us” is the right path. Strategies Three strategies to promoting the health of this family the community health nurse (CHN) can address include, providing education and speciality physician consultation regarding the appropriate and safe use of
Chochinov, 2007 (cited in Cornwell & Goodrich, 2009), states simply that compassion is ‘a deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it.’ Pediatric patients and their families are highly sensitive to the compassionate nature of health care professionals and a successful therapeutic relationship with them depends on the sensitive, compassionate care offered by the nurse. This paper will discuss why communication, family centred care and compassion are necessary and important qualities for a nurse to possess when working with pediatric patients and specify some of the challenges a nurse may meet in providing these. Communicating with Babies and Children Nursing children and babies requires a highly skilled and sensitive approach to communication. The developmental age of the pediatric patient needs to be considered when determining the best ways to
The importance goes further to the core of the problem focusing on the nurse and evaluating what is needed to be done in order to educate this patient group. The research problem involves nurses who are not comfortable discussing end-of-life issues with their patients and is identified in the first few paragraphs of the article. This is a significant problem nurses and doctors can educate, manage and monitor for these chronic patients. The purpose is not clearly stated in the study, but is inferred within the abstract of the article as well. Patients and families dealing with potential end-of-life issues is a very common problem in health care today.
Also discussed was the organization’s commitment to delivering charity care and providing services to meet the underserved patients. Also discussed was the organizations monitoring of patient populations. This is done thru random surveys throughout the community being served; asking for their input to identify needs not being met by the organization. I as a nurse can utilize the programs available to help serve the underserved, such as the language and communication programs available to help promote adequate communications with my patients. I can also identify needs of the underserved and present the situation to the appropriate individuals in the organization, and offer a plan to help solve or deliver the services
During the meeting an explanation of how the team can all work together to help their clients and families better. “The team is actively interdependent, with an established means of ongoing communication among team members and with patients and families to ensure that various aspects of patients’ health care needs are integrated and addressed.” (Grant, n.d.). Having the team members bring their individual knowledge and experience together on each client can help with the flow and to improve quality and continuity of care for their clients. B. Delegation and Teamwork Approaching someone can be a sensitive matter. When talking with Ms. W about delegation the supervisor should do it in a private room with just the two of them.
Being compassionate is one of the most important traits a CENA must have. In the work place, a CENA may work in many saddening settings which may include working with the terminally ill and the elderly. In order for the aide to give the most effective care to the resident or patient, he or she must want to help. They would treat the patient as if it was their own family in this kind of predicament. They must have the passion to help others to get back to their everyday lives or for some, help them learn to live with their illness.
Reality orientation is one of the most widely used management strategies for dealing with people with dementia (Holden and Woods, 1995). It aims to help people with memory loss and disorientation by reminding them of facts about themselves and their environment. As I said earlier Trudy would have lucid periods where she knew she was in hospital. At these times I could say “Trudy you are staying in hospital for the moment Paddy is not well enough to take care of you at the moment”. Trudy would accept this and understand that I was a nurse and I was there to help.
It is used often in in the help of counseling families. According to Mize, the Calgary Family Assessment Model “challenges that rather than conversations between healthcare workers and patients are illness-focused…suggest that healing occurs in conversations where the healthcare professional takes a curious and interested stance regarding the families strengths and solutions.” We must not forget about the families. We must see if the elderly can be cared for and make sure that the families are capable of the hardships to come in the future. The families will also need teaching for the disease and for the caring as the disease progresses. The patient themselves will need to know what to expect and how to cope.