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Compassionate nursing care in intensive care unit

   

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After studying and working as a nurse, I am more dedicated to help and care sick people. So myarea of interest is in intensive care unit. In nursing profession, Compassionate care is in highpriority. Compassion is about intelligent treatment which demonstrates empathy, kindness, faith,integrity and dignity but it also focus on how the patients feels about the treatment she/hereceives. Compassionate nursing care is a crucial factor of delivering excellent healthservicestopatients and it couldbe the greatest and most important contribution that anursecanprovidetopatientsinhealthcaresystems. That's why nurseshave always soughtandbeeninvolvedinfulfillingthepatient'sneedsbydisplayingaltruismanddespitealllimitationsandobstacles (Papadopoulos, Shea, Taylor,Pezzella, & Foley 2016). According to thereasearch done by Dalvandi, Vaisi-Raygani, Nourozi, Ebadi, & Rahgozar (2019) illustrates thatproviding supportive nursing care will lead to greater satisfaction for patients, safe care, time andexpenses savings, a sense of productivity and staff performance, improved trust and copingskills. The study done by Henderson and Jones (2017) said that understanding the wishes anddesires of concerned patient is crucial in delivering compassionate treatment. On the contrary, ithas been demonastrated that certain causes such as lack of collaboration between the medicalstaff, lack of commitment among nurses, lack of holistic approach and lack of serviceorganisation may be obstacles to holistic treatment (Babaei & Taleghani 2019). The literaturereview has shown that the nurses don't know their patients and their desires. In most cases,patient expectations are not adequately investigated and achieved (Henderson & Jones2017).About 40% of studies have recognised challenges to compassionate care, particularly in thefields of medical care, preparation and education. The literature suggested that educationalbarriers, cultural barrier ,practical barriers, communication barriers etc are the main challengesthat affects healthcare professionals ability to provide compassionate care. Among themcommunication was described as a crucial medium for the delivery of caring in clinical treatment(Sinclair, Norris, McConnell, Chochinov, Hack, Hagen, McClement, & Bouchal 2016)Back in my home country, working as Icu nurses one day in my morning shift there was onepatient admitted for the diagnosis of fall injury with c3-c4 vertebral fracture. He wasmechanically ventilated due to sudden drop of oxygen and Ng tube was inserted for feeding .Ihave been taking care of that patient during my shifts.In the beginningfelt empathy because ofhis health condition.I put myself in the patient condition, and tried to think how terrified Iwould be if I waked up like that. After all morning care it was the time for feeding but I forget tofeed my patient as I was busy in recording the results of care. Suddenly, I saw that my patientwas waving his hand. I noticed his unusal facial expression. I asked him what happen; he wasexpressing the feeling but I was unable to understand his expressionn and my senior nurse cameand asked him .She said are you feeling hungry.Immediately they squeezed her hand foryes.During that time, I have learned that communication is not always about speaking, but that itcan also be about squeezing hands for yes, or shaking their heads for no, with facial expression.At the end of my shift, I found that it was necessary to concentrate on little things for eachpatient.Although others mayn't know how to console the client, Ieventually figured it out overmy duty hours.As a good nurse, we need to give compassionate care and concentrate on small
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