Week 1 Discussion: Our Care Culture (EA-graded)

Week 1 Discussion: Our Care Culture (EA-graded)

Week 1 Discussion: Our Care Culture (graded)
Purpose
This week’s graded topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO).

CO1: Applies principles of nursing, theories, and the care philosophies to self, colleagues, individuals, families, aggregates and communities throughout the healthcare system. (PO#1)

Discussion
Care expressed and practiced in professional nursing models provides a way of looking at the nursing role from the aspect of care. It may seem excessive to consider aspects of caring and compassion in nursing. However, precisely because it IS nursing makes it crucial to our continual progress of defining and upholding one of our central professional principles.

Address each of these items:

Reflect on a caring and compassionate experience with a patient or family encountered in your practice. How was your compassion demonstrated? What other ways do you wish you would have expressed caring?
How does your thinking about compassion expand to include self and colleagues?
Please complete the iCARE Self-Assessment (Links to an external site.) and download for your own use and information. The self-assessment is not a graded item.

NR451 iCARE Self Assessment form

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Type your answers below:
How do I demonstrate care for colleagues/peers?
I demonstrate care to my colleagues by showing them kindness, volunteering to assist them whenever they need my help, and listening to them.

Is this the same way I show care for patients? (Why? or Why not?)
For patients, I show them greater compassion because of their situation especially those with chronic illnesses and those who do not have close relatives.

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