Caring Theory By Sister Roach Discussion 2022

Running head: CARING THEORY BY SISTER ROACH
CARING THEORY BY SISTER ROACH
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Introduction:
Sister Roach states that compassion, competence, confidence, conscience, commitment as
well as comportment are the six attributes nurses need to intricate in their caring process. Two of
them are discussed below:
Compassion:
Compassion means to be present with another individual mentally and emotionally in
their sufferings. The nursing profession expects individuals to exhibit sympathy and empathy
towards human pain and joy and put themselves in the shoes of the patients to understand their
experiences and sufferings from the latter’s point of view (Bradshaw, 2016). Florence
Nightingale who is considered the mother of nursing had become famous for showing
compassion towards different wounded patients on the battlefield during the times of the
Crimean war. Researchers have found that patients who are exhibited compassion by their nurses
develop courage in times of illness, pain as well as mental stress (Baille, 2017). When nurses
successfully connect with patients through compassion, they can develop a strong bond with the
patients based on trust and loyalty.
Compassion care can be well associated with principle 2 of NMBA code of conduct for
nurses as it discusses about person-centered practices of healthcare professionals. Nurses are
expected to provide person centered care through best of the evidence based practices for
development of health and well-being of the patients. Compassion is one of the key attribute that
helps in enhancing person-centered care. Through effective exhibition of compassion and
empathy, nurses can strike the right partnership with patients through the development of strong
bonds based on trust and loyalty that increases patient satisfaction. Compassion enhances

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patient’s will to cooperate with the nurses making them feel that nurses are really interested in
their well-being and that they feel their suffering and pain. In such way, it becomes easier for the
nurses to put patients at the central position of their care procedure and through effective
cooperation and partnership, proper treatment plan is prepared through shared decision-making
procedures (Logan, 2017). Compassion also makes the procedure of taking informed consent
easier because of the trust the nurse earned. It also helps in prevention of adverse events through
open disclosure as the transparency between nurse and patient increases due to exhibition of
compassion and empathy by the nurses.
Compassionate care provides patients support as well as confidence in critical times
helping them to manage stress effectively. Experts have also found out that nurses who show
compassion towards their patients can gift them a sense of dignity especially during the times
when their privacy is limited. When nurses show compassion, patients not only feel comfortable
but also respected (Bradshaw, 2016). Hence, compassion has become an important attribute that
is expected of every nursing professional to display while treating patients.
Competence:
Competence is an important attribute of caring put forward by Roach in her model of 6c’s
of caring. This attribute is mainly defined as the expertise of nursing professionals to acquire and
utilize evidence-based scientific and humanistic knowledge and skills while applying therapeutic
interventions to patients in the current scenarios of modern-day nursing. Experts are of the
opinion that competence gets reflected in the effective, cognitive as well as psychomotor
domains of learning (Fowler, Tschudin & Peter, 2016). Nurses need to be competent enough to
exhibit high quality clinical and technical skills and knowledge to help patients get over various