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Caring Relationship (caring + relationship)
Selected AbstractsThe healing power of reflective writing for a student victim of sexual assaultJOURNAL OF FORENSIC NURSING, Issue 2 2009Karen A. Karlowicz EdD Abstract The phenomenon of a caring relationship between a teacher and her student, a victim of sexual assault, is mediated through reflective writing assignments in a baccalaureate nursing program. Increased self-awareness, personal transformation, and healing results when the student is encouraged to openly write about her feelings. [source] The meaning of respite care to mothers of children with learning disabilities: two Irish case studiesJOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC & MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 3 2003L. HARTREY RGN Dip. There is a growing interest in Ireland in the nature and significance of respite care for carers and those for whom they care. The relationship of individual stress with caring full time for a child who is learning disabled is well documented. Provision of respite care is seen as an important means of alleviating individual carer stress. Yet, the apparent benefits of respite care have been called into question. The present study looks at this issue within the context of respite service provision in Ireland for young people with learning disabilities. A phenomenological approach was used to explore the views of two mothers on respite care and, in particular, its personal significance for them within the context of their caring relationship for their children. The authors found that for these two mothers, whilst some of the predicted benefits of respite care were present, for example improved social activity, their use of respite care and the experience of separation initiated feelings of guilt and appeared to engender a degree of emotional stress. It is argued that providers of respite services in Ireland need to consider how they can support parents who use respite care so that they see its use as a mark of caring for their child and thereby alleviate such feelings of guilt. [source] Caring Behaviors As Perceived by Nurse PractitionersJOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS, Issue 7 2004A/G/FNP, Ann Green PhD Purpose To investigate nurse practitioners' (NPs') perceptions of their own caring behaviors and to examine NPs' demographics as a function of their caring behaviors. Data Sources Responses to the Caring Behaviors Inventory (CBI) and a demographic inquiry from 348 NPs in Louisiana. Conclusions CBI mean scores and subscale scores were high for all 348 NPs. No statistically significant difference was found between male NPs' and female NPs' total mean CBI scores or between urban or rural total mean CBI scores. The interaction between nurse gender and area of practice was not statistically significant. Implications for Practice NPs often work in clinic situations where productivity is the most valued characteristic and where little time is afforded for identifying caring behaviors of the NP and/or establishing a caring relationship with the patient. NPs must be extremely conscious of the need not to "throw out the baby with the bathwater" and sacrifice characteristics that are inherent in nursing for those emphasized in primary care practice. As their responsibilities in the health care setting continue to expand, NPs must continually evaluate and validate their roles to ensure quality care that satisfies patients. [source] Relational care: learning to look beyond intentionality to the ,non-intentional' in a caring relationshipNURSING PHILOSOPHY, Issue 4 2007Dennis Greenwood PhD MSc BA RN Abstract, This paper considers the implications for nursing practice of what the continental philosopher Emmanuel Levinas described as the ,non-intentional'. The place of the non-intentional emerges from a critique of Buber's conception of the ,I-Thou' and the ,I-It' relations, and is revealed to a person in the moments prior to the grasping of conscious understanding. A specific incident that took place between a nurse and a person diagnosed with dementia is described and then used to illustrate an exploration of the ,I-Thou' relation and then the non-intentional. The nurse practitioner's pre-understandings of the term dementia are shown to have hindered the emergence of an ,I-Thou' relation and the possibility of a non-intentional glimpse of the otherness of the other. It is suggested here that the plausible associations that become synonymous with a diagnosis like dementia detract from attentiveness to another ,person'. The more tangible an understanding of another person becomes, the less likely it is that a person can really experience the other as separate to their perception of them. The implications for practitioner education and learning in relation to the non-intentional are considered, in particular the need to reflect on the immediacy of the feelings experienced in a relationship. The non-intentional highlights how ,I', as a nurse practitioner, can exclude the other by imposing an understanding on what is seen and experienced in relation to another person. The ,I' prioritizes intentional understanding and so obscures the importance of the spontaneous response to the tear in the eye of the other, which is the basis for Levinas's conception of the non-intentional. The spontaneity of the non-intentional is what Levinas believed confirmed the separateness and autonomy of the other and consequently should be the basis for a therapeutic nursing relationship with a patient. [source] | ||||||||||