Caring as an Essential Element of Nursing

This report discusses the importance of caring in nursing and argues that it is an essential element. It explores the 5 C's of caring and how they contribute to patient well-being and recovery. The report concludes that caring is crucial for nurses to show compassion and provide quality care to their patients.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Nursing is a procedure of being or having someone in charge of someone’s personal health.
This procedure ensures that the best condition of patient has been maintained and the core of
such nursing practice is caring. The present report has developed with the aim of argument
affirmatively to the statement which is Caring is an essential element of Nursing. For this
procedure, this report will include literature for defining caring and the arguments that can direct
the affirmative agreement for the statement that caring is an essential element of Nursing. This
report will include various elements of Caring along with its importance in the field of Nursing.
MAIN BODY
Caring is not only about the medical aspect of nursing but it is the care which helps patients
to release stress about their conditions and injuries. It is important for nurses who are practicing
professional, treat their patient so that the patient’s need can be fulfilled (Kitson, 2018). Caring is
a term defined as collaborative relationship between nurses and their patients that includes
mutual relationship and aims for positive outcomes for the patients. In order to understand the
concept of Caring better, it is important to analyse the 5 C’s of caring that includes commitment,
competence, confidence, compassion and conscience. The first C which is commitment indicates
that the life and work of a nurse can be difficult as it requires skills and experience to not only
deal with certain kind of people but to also care for them. Considering this, the profession of
Nursing is filled with strong values and commitment for work which pushes the nurses to care
for their patients without any bias and conflict of interest. The commitment elements states that it
is important for a nurse to be committed towards their work and develop the ability to enhance
the level of care which has been delivered to the patients.
Another C is competence which states that ever person practicing nursing must be
competent enough take complete care of a patient. This concept is more complex than it looks as
there are various ways through which a nurse can show its competence (Burridge and et.al.
2017). Few aspects which high level of competence can include arriving at their workplace on
the designated time, another aspect can include fulfilling all their workplace responsibility and
completing the emotional needs of patient. So, it is important for a practicing nurse to be
competent enough to be caring. Another C of care is Compassion which states that a caring nurse
shows compassion towards their patients by providing them positive vibes using soft
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communication skills. Compassion is not only important for Caring concept but this aspect of
compassion is important for every health care profession as this feeling of compassion helps
nurses empathize with their patients and provide them considerate treatment. Compassion also
leads to the human connection of care that helps in improving the situation of patients.
Another C of care is confidence that acts a primary element of care as this element allows a
nurse to effectively indulge other 4 elements in their practice (Kahl and et.al. 2018). A confident
nurse can help their patient to experience weaker times and can make them feel comfortable and
confident with the condition or injury they are experiencing. Last element of care is conscience
which implies that it is important for a nurse to have a moral responsibility sense to be caring
nurse. This element is essential as it guides the nurse to focus on the stress of patient that is
caused by personal or professional matters and then try to evade that stress by using consistent
practices. All the 5 C’s of care analysed above are the elements which define the procedure of
caring in nursing. The Care procedure is also considered effective as it helps the overall nursing
experience and results into shorter hospital stays of patient and decreased anxiety. The Nursing
with care provides patient an optimistic outlook about their recovery and provides them a hope
that alleviates their pain (Mirhaghi and et.al. 2017).
Caring is an aspect in which medical nurses professionally and emotionally care about their
patient. This aspect may or may not require for each patient’s case due to which the significance
of caring is questionable and a point of argument. The statement stating Caring is an essential
element of Nursing is argument as follows by using various literature.
Nursing and medicine are now a days handled with technology and with rapid enhancement
in technology, the outlook of nursing has been changed and practitioners are proving that
technology can help patients to recover faster from their conditions. But no one can disagree that
even with advanced technological equipment and growing specialisation, the Nursing with care
is more meaningful for a patient than a cure. Caring is an approach which is focused on patient
and is called patient centric approach. A nursing procedure which has care as its core results into
well being of patients directly. The element of Caring is essential for Nursing and to support the
argument the approach of “head, hand and heart” an be used. It is a considerable fact that
Nursing practice requires nurses to use their hand to handle patient physically, their head to
handle patient mentally and heart to control patients emotionally (Feo and et.al. 2017). Without
the presence of all these three, the practice of nursing will be vulnerable. So, if all these three are
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essential for nursing, the caring element is also essential as the caring element is directly related
to heart. It is considered appropriately that Nursing is a serious business and emotions and
Caring are not important in some cases but the knowledge to provide humane and sensitive care
are also important as these encourages the patient to recover faster. It is important for nurses to
be taught about caring so that they can carry an attitude of care even if they have a technical
aspect to nursing as well.
According to the medical practitioners there is a solid basis for teaching the Caring theory to
the nursing students so that they can be compassionate and confident in the treatment of their
patient (Minton and et.al. 2018). The Caring is considered as the core of Nursing as it allows to
provide a quality and compassionate care and also helps in putting the personal biases of nurses
aside so that no prejudices can impact their care. The behaviour of Caring includes attentive
listening, comforting, honesty and patience. All such behaviour enforces the mutual honesty and
respect due to which patients becomes more open about their problems and about the things
which are troubling them. Such information is considered as the background information of a
patient that can be used for their treatment (Feo and et.al. 2018). Caring element is not only
essential in Nursing but it is also the essence of Nursing and must be given a central and
dominant focus. Nursing is a human science and even after considering the limits of technology
and its effectiveness, the fact cannot be denied that care goes hand in hand with cure and it is
important to show humanly compassion to ensure that patient is able to control its anxiety. The
theory of Caring is related with the theory of humanism according to which Care and
compassion results into patient gain the higher degree of harmony in their mind by which their
mind, soul and body automatically starts to heal. The disagreement of considering Caring as an
important element of Nursing is like disagreeing the social relations being the important element
of working motivation. The Caring stimulates the transpersonal caring relationship that takes
place into action whenever the nurse make contact with patients. A nurse who is able to be
transpersonal is like a help with embrace the spirit of patient and process them through the
process of caring and healing.
From the point of few practitioners, it has been also critically analysed that Caring is that
element of Nursing profession with bridges the gap of having companions such as family and
friends and due to which such element is considered and argument as an essential element of
Nursing (Zwakhalen and et.al. 2018). Finally, it can be said that care is not only an element but is
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a phenomenon that ensures that hope and commitment is transferred to the patient so that they
can recover from their condition or injuries.
CONCLUSION
The above piece of work is a summary of the concept of Caring and its importance in the
professional practice of Nursing. This summarisation has helped in reaching to the conclusion
that it has been agreed that Caring is an essential element of Nursing as it does not only improve
the condition of patient but it actually helps patients to recover faster. The above report
concludes that all the aspects of caring such as commitment and confidence are the pillars that
helps nurses to show compassion towards their patient without having any biases.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Kahl, C. & et.al. (2018). Actions and interactions in clinical nursing practice in Primary Health
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Mirhaghi, A. & et.al. (2017). Therapeutic relationship: Is it still heart of nursing?. Nursing
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