Caring in Nursing Information 2022

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CARING IN NURSING
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Introduction
Nursing as a profession was founded on the basis of caring as envisioned by the founders
of nursing including Florence Nightingale who raised the standards of nurses by making
sure that future nurses had to be trained on how to take of the sick. The art of caring is a
fundamental and a basic component of nursing that implies that nursing has to be
practised holistically taking care of both physical and emotional needs of the patients in
their time of need. Taking care of patients’ means that the nurses have to be actively
present with the patient and therapeutically connect with them on the basis of person-
centred care.
Event description
The summer of 2015 was a tough time for our family as my uncle who was living with us
was accidentally hit by a car by a drunk driver and had his leg amputated. After a long
stay in the hospital, he brought home and we had to take care of him while at home. My
mother assigned me the role of helping in dressing his wound and staying at home with
him because I had expressed my interest in nursing to her. Everyone in my family would
go for work and I was supposed to spend my days being around my uncle an experience I
always looked forward to everyday day for the rest of the summer. At times I would
resist the attempt to go and play with my friends as I felt that my uncle needed my
attention more than my friends and this brought inner peace to me. He was in pain most
of the times and I religiously gave him his pain-relieving medication as directed by the
doctor and even stayed with him and listened to his emotional needs. He was always
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happy when I was around him because I always saw him smile after giving him his
medication and listening to his wonderful stories as he would later tell me those were his
best moments in life. On getting back from work my mother would dress his wound and
give him his medication and later she sat with him and they talked for long both smiling.
Was I learning the basics of caring in nursing from my mother? I always asked myself
and later came to understand that my mother was attentively attending to the needs of my
uncle wholly by sitting with him and emotionally connecting with him something I did
while she was at work. To me my uncle was my first patient and I treasured every
moment I spent taking care of him, it was an opportunity to serve my uncle in his time of
need which is what the patient always expect from their nurses.
Reflection of new learning.
Several nursing caring ideas have been proposed that explain and guide how best nurses
can relate to patients to bring the utmost good to them in their time of need and
vulnerability. Watson's caring theory of transpersonal caring envisions that nurses should
endeavour to promote health, prevent illness, take care of the sick and help in the
restoration of the patients' health (. Watson, 2010). Nurses can provide a caring
environment by therapeutically connecting to the patients under their care and giving
room to the patient so that they can have a say into what treatment they want and are
comfortable with. The art of caring as offered to patients by nurses is not genetically
transmitted but has to be passed professionally and my mother did efficiently practice this
as she tried to teach me what caring for someone entails. From a caring perspective,
nurses have to provide the best environment the can to their patients by making sure that
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