Capella University
NURS-FPX6203 : Theory Development in Nursing
Professor Name
October 2024
Caring Concept
A concept is a word or a phrase that stands for abstract generalized notions, for instance, equity or environment. Care is among the ideas that will be described as the foundation of nursing (Akbari & Nasiri, 2022). Apart from the first intent that questions the possession of the knowledge of right and wrong in the delivery of the health care service, the notion of competence of a nurse is more oriented towards what they want to do, depending on what they know (Zhang et al., 2022). Caring is still more a concept that cannot be taught or learned within the context of a nursing course. Caring is a requisite of all nurses and marketing is a symbol of a good nurse. Kwiatkowska revealed that empathy enables the gateway of the developing therapeutic relationship so that the interaction can connect the nurse and the patient to be open (Zhang et al., 2022). Caring is important because, for one to be a great nurse, so there is a need to be caring most of the time. However, listing is not enough to get a job in this field. However, it remains one of the fundamentals and will continue to be one of the fundamentals that will make nursing a practice.
The Essence of Nursing: A Commitment to Care
Scenario
Being a nurse and getting a job in this area is something that requires some characteristics and various motives. Thus, in this decision, plus the insights and considerations about getting at the heart of what nursing is, I responded to a visceral impulse to aid humans at their most vulnerable (Ghanbari et al., 2022). Today, I am a bedside critical care nurse meaning that my potentiality to care and my willingness to care are continuously prodded. I fully correlated sensitivity as a vital component because a nurse ought to be caring (Ghanbari et al., 2022). Although caring is one of the basic tenets of nursing, some of these aspects influence the level of interest of a particular nurse regarding this profession; these aspects include patient compliance, working environment, advancement in technology, staff-patient ratio, Management support, and value for off duty.
Nursing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Being a fresh nurse during the COVID-19 nurses was one of the biggest challenges, I had to face when joining my nursing practice. This was the period that was characterized by a lot of depression especially because patients were not allowed contact with their relatives (Sebrant & Long, 2021). I never saw despair and its melted face in my patients, but when I saw the lack of hope in their eyes, I knew I had to provide for them (Dean et al., 2020). The disorientation defined as the lack of structure is an interesting concept as it describes what became my constant as a method of passing through each day, and a necessity to assess support for my patients.
Concept Analysis: The Role of Caring in Nursing
When deciding to enroll for a master of science in nursing to be a family nurse practitioner, I understand that the care issue will always remain an active policy (Li et al., 2021). The things that I am learning are fairly useful and useful but there is always a carer buried deep within me. They both address Sebrant and Long (2021) on how Caring prevails in nursing. Hence, as long as other skills, domains, assumptions, and development that shapeAPNs’s decision-making, the essence role of nursing involves caring (Traynor, 2023). Caring is relevant to the APRN’s practice because it provides proximal and distal benefits such as facilitating healing, enhancing trust, and through downstream, positive patient outcomes.
Caring, Empathy, and Compassion
Care is connected to patience and kindness, and this must be the benchmark for a patient’s feelings (Cao et al., 2023). Even if the given patient tried to incorporate several modern innovations into the technique, as well as pay much attention to the patient’s psychological condition, treating and improving a person’s physical well-being and treatment is still possible.
Literature Review: Defining the Concept of Caring
The Nature of Caring
Studies provide a meaning of caring as involving persons as well as their surroundings, and the performances are not anticipated to be compensated. Promoting the root of the given outline of the external environment in healthcare shifts patient, safety, hope, and well-being to the requirement of the healthcare provider’s behaviors, skills, and attitudes (Hadadian et al., 2022). Both patients and families would be willing to get more involved in the process of their treatment if they feel that someone cares for them.
Impact of Caring on Nurses
Blessed human associations suggest the value of nurses’ work. It is of particularly great value to provide practitioners with such feedback to motivate and enthuse them in the profession (Turale & Nantsupawat, 2021). Studious posits that they found out that caring is not a one-off exercise of talking and physical manifestations, but rather a well-coordinated orchestra of disciplinary expectations, evidence-based practices, professional best practices, and even dispositions.
The Essential Role of Caring in Nursing
The participants pointed out that caring was one of the aspects of quality of care nursing as it addresses patients’ physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and leads to patient satisfaction, as well as satisfaction of the nursing staff (Mancuso, 2021).
Nurses’ Perceptions of Caring
Sebrant and Jong’s study, “What is the meaning of the concept of caring?: Regarding this, the paper “Murat” (2021) examines the beliefs, which nurses have regarding caring. Therefore, they found out that nursing is mentally associated with caring which is stated as the knowledge base nurses operate at a higher, conscious code (Murat et al., 2021). Caring competence is not one of the academic accomplishments that are learned through reading books though is more of a competence derived from experimentation and assessment.
Themes of Caring
The study identified four themes: ‘to be,’ ‘to want,’ ‘to be able to,’ and ‘to do.’Each of these notions defines distinct aspects of caregiving:
- ‘To be’: Closely involved in actual patient care and functioning as an active and equal member of the health care team.
- ‘To want’: Self-development through reflection and learning forms part of the core purpose and meaning that nurses seek in their practice (Lewis, 2023).
- ‘To be able to’: It is the reality of caring grounded on experience or aiming to refer to the experience, laws related to the organization, and social standards.
- ‘To do’: Dialogically building countenance and doing person-centered care interactions.
They together form the cycle of caring organization of nursing practice that goes on continuously.
NURS FPX 6203 Assessment 2 Conclusion
The concept of care in nursing is therefore holistic; both endogenous and exogenous. This involves being a friendly, professional, knowledgeable, ENDM, and possessing enduring ‘frame’ magnet working friendships with patients (Subke et al., 2020). Nursing care is innate in every nurse, but the steadfast adhesion to the core values sets up extraordinary nurses. In essence, it is the commitment to these holistic principles that distinguishes exemplary nursing care, fostering trust and resilience in patient relationships.
NURS FPX 6203 Assessment 2 References
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