A competent nurse uses evidence

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Introduction:
Sister Roach had put forward the model of 6c’s of caring. She believes that nurses should
care for patients just not because it is their profession but because humans have their intrinsic
traits of caring to all beings (Villeneuve et al., 2016). The 6 c’s are compassion, competence,
comportment, conscience, commitment as well as confidence. The poster had used two of its
principle like compassion and competence and had associated it with the principles of NMBA
codes of conducts.
Compassion:
One of the principles of 6c’s of Caring put forward by Roach discusses about
compassion. This principle mainly advises nursing professionals to treat patients as unique
individuals with their specific and special needs. A compassionate nurse should be empathetic
towards the pain and suffering of the patients and ensure their well-being (Bradshaw, 2016)
(Baille, 2017). Compassionate care makes patients more comfortable mentally as well as
emotionally and helps patients to get over stress and pain arising from physical disorders.
Experts have defined compassion in nursing as the sympathetic awareness of the distress
suffered by another individual combined with the will for alleviating such distress. It is not
simply about helping patients to get over the disorder but making way through the patient’s
experience and thereby enabling them so that they can retain their dignity and independence.
Association with NMBA:
NMBA codes of conduct puts forward the principle of person centered care and practices.
This principle says that nurses need to provide safe as well as person-centered care for the
development of health and well-being of the patients. In order to do so, it becomes important for

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the nurses to develop partnerships with the patient and his family members. Nurses need to
promote shared-decision making and ensure appropriate care delivery between patients,
nominated partners, friends, families and health professionals (NMBA, 2018). In order to fulfill
the tenets of such principle, effective communication is important. However, to initiate effective
communication and to develop trust among patients, nurses need to exhibit empathy and
compassion. Patients need to feel that the nurses are compassionate enough about their care and
that the nurses can feel and experience the pain that the patient and family members are going
through (Bradshaw, 2016). When the nurse shows compassion, it results in development of a
strong bond between nurses and patients and accordingly, the patients start relying on nurses.
This makes it easier for the nurses to not only provide safe care but also provide person centered
care. Compassion ensures striking of a proper partnership with that of patient and family
members, thereby ensuring an environment of transparency and trust. The procedures of shared
decision-making, informed consents, maintenance of autonomy and justice and other attributes –
all gets conducted when nurses show empathy and compassion towards patients making them
feel that they are cared enough by the professionals. Patients remain happy with compassionate
nurses and their bonds also help in preventing adverse events trough open and honest
communication between each other.
Competence:
A competent nurse uses evidence-based knowledge along with proper interpersonal skills
for working ethically, legally and within their own scope of practices. By the term
“competence”, it means that nurses should have proper skills, knowledge and expertise not only
in their technical and clinical skills to provide high quality care to patients. They should have
proper communication as well as interpersonal skills, nursing and decision-making skills and

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even leadership, management, team-working and others. Such competencies help in providing
high quality essential care, complex and safe care, protect public interests and health advocacy
(Sharifi et al., 2019).
Association with NMBA codes:
One of the six principles of Roache’s model of 6’cs of caring discusses of the concept of
competence among nurses. This can be exemplified with the help of one principle discussed in
NMB codes of conduct namely principle 3 that talks about cultural practices and respectful
relationships. In the modern world of healthcare profession, the term cultural competence has
gained much attention. Nurses need to develop cultural competency so that they can provide care
to patients, which not only respect cultural traditions, rituals and mannerisms of the culture of the
patient but also overcomes stereotypes and discriminatory behaviors and prejudices of people
coming from varied backgrounds. This principle states that nurses should have competencies to
provide culturally safe care (Villeneuve et al., 2016). They should be competent enough to
communicate effectively though appropriate verbal and non-verbal cues, manage bullying and
harassment among teams as well as from patients and family members. They should show
competency in handling legal and ethical obligations that rise from everyday scenarios in a
healthcare setting like issues arising from privacy and confidentiality. Moreover several other
competencies like acting with professional integrity, managing professional boundaries in
different case scenarios, handling of conflicts of interests, and several others are also required to
excel in the healthcare profession.

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Conclusion:
The above discussion shows that two important principles in the 6c’s of caring is
compassion and competence. The nurses need to develop knowledge about them in details and
link them up with NMBA codes of conduct to provide effective care to the patients.

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