Care expressed and practiced in professional nursing models provides a way of looking at the nursing role from the aspect of care. It may seem excessive to consider aspects of caring and compassion in nursing. However, precisely because it IS nursing makes it crucial to our continual progress of defining and upholding one of our central professional principles.

Address each of these items:

• Reflect on a caring and compassionate experience with a patient or family encountered in your practice.
• How was your compassion demonstrated?
• What other ways do you wish you would have expressed caring?
• How does your thinking about compassion expand to include self and colleagues?

Please complete the iCARE Self-Assessment (Links to an external site.) and download for your own use and information. The self-assessment is not a graded item.

Solution

I have worked in both adult and pediatric settings. While working in the pediatric setting, I cared for a 5-year-old who had pneumonia and sepsis. The child was in critical condition, and the family was anxious. With pediatric patients, our interactions with the family are fundamental.  ANA recommends that we practice the art of caring, which “goes beyond the emotional connections of humans to the ability to respond to the human aspects of health and illness within the critical moment to promote healing and calm” (American Nurses’ Association, 2016)..………….please follow the link below to purchase the solution at $5