Nursing Care: My Personal Caring Story

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Nursing Care
My Personal caring story
I have a personal experience where I demonstrated care to a patient. Not long ago, I
was left to look after my sick grandmother and help her take her prescription. She is over 70
years of age and she has been a staunch Christian since she was young. I was supposed to help
her take meal, keep her company, and ensure she took her prescription. The prescription was
very strict to help her relieve pain and recover successfully. While together, she requested me to
get her Bible. My relatives thought that grandma was spending much time reading the bible that
made her pay less attention to her prescription. I brought the Bible and helped her read her
favorite verses loudly. After reading the Bible I allowed her time to pray. In this situation, I felt it
was important to respect grandma strong faith that affirmed her spiritual that she was to get well
soon. I gave her the support and reassurance that taking her prescription was just a treatment and
it was God who would heal her. I showed concern and cheerfulness when providing helping her
take her prescription. I also allowed grandma to discuss her fears and anxieties with me. During
this moment, I saw grandma mood change and she was happy, full of hope that she will get
healed and optimistic about her prescription. It was interesting how I cared for grandma that day
that left her happy and in good alignment with her spiritual belief.
The concept of nursing care
Nursing care is a very important aspect in provision of high quality and personalized
healthcare. Nurses have a responsibility to care for families, individuals, and communities with
an objective of attaining, maintaining, or recovering optimal health to enhance quality of life.
White (2014) defines care as services that are rendered by nurses for the benefits of the patient.

According to Watson & Woodward, (2010) nursing care are therapeutic actives that are in
addition to intermittent services and includes private duty nursing. Watson & Woodward (2010)
stated that nursing care has to involve showing and feeling concern or kindness towards patients.
Patients experience other stress apart from the medical aspect that requires attention when
providing nursing care for quality life. According to Heslop & Lu (2014) nurses need to treat
physical ailments together with emotional and spiritual needs. Nursing care approach leads to
positive outcomes that include; shorter hospital stays, decreased anxiety, alleviated pain and
optimism outlook about recovery (Watson, 2011). Nurses should therefore act professionally
within standards of practices to enhance provision of holistic nursing care.
Nursing care can be demonstrated in several ways within the Standards of Practice.
First, is Standard 3 that requires nurses to maintain capacity for practice ("Nursing and
Midwifery Board of Australia - Registered nurse standards for practice", 2016). Nurses can
demonstrates this standard of nursing care by continually learning through professional self
development. They evaluate what skills or knowledge that is inadequate and figure out the
appropriate learning avenue for the skill or gain knowledge. Nurses use lifelong learning
approach that continually improves their capacity for practice. According to Hoeve, Jansen, &
Roodbol (2014) nurses need to maintain their capacity for practice by keeping their knowledge
current, pursuing wide variety of interests, and learning new skills. Watson & Woodward, (2010)
stated that lifelong learning improves patients’ health outcomes. Therefore nurses can
demonstrate Standard 3 of maintain capacity for practice by continually assessing their
knowledge and skills and adopt lifelong learning approaches to learn them.
Another standard of practice is standard 2 that require nurses to engage in professional
and therapeutic relationship ("Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia - Registered nurse