International Council of Nurses and person-centered care

Nursing Students' Work Experience Based Perceptions of "Being a Good Nurse"

“…Nursing students experienced that "being a good nurseˮ requires not only the embodiment of certain professional features, but also the clear demonstration of them. The nurse must demonstrate responsibility, cooperativeness, diligence, and duty; all of which must be accompanied by an ethic of care (Bartz, 2010;LaSala, Bjarnason, 2010). Students perceived nurses' professional features as the attributes that a good nurse should possess, i.e., certain features which a good nurse must demonstrate through their actions.…”

“…Good nurses clearly understand themselves and their role in the nursing profession. "Being a good nurse" means: 1) being compassionate: feeling concern and sympathy for others; 2) being empathetic: the willingness to make a concerted effort to listen to patients, to see things from the patient's perspective and to attempt to understand patients' challenges; 3) being selfless: willing to make personal sacrifices for the sake of others; 4) being self-aware: possessing the emotional intelligence to understand oneself and one's values with reference to others, and to recognize one's personal strengths and limitations; 5) being caring, understanding, nonjudgmental, with the ability to empathize with patients and to control one's own emotions when dealing with stressful situations; 6) being able to communicate with physicians, patients and their relatives, and co-workers; and 7) being knowledgeable about how to perform all responsibilities with the utmost accuracy and thoroughness (Brammer, 2006;Bartz, 2010;McLean, 2011;Gokenbach, 2012). With regard to "being a good nurse", researchers mention nurses' competence (Meehan, 2012), the nurse-patient relationship (Benbow, 2013;Rørtveit et al, 2015), and the ethics of nursing (Lachman, 2012;Bagnasco et al, 2016).…”

Family Nursing: The family as the unit of research and care

“…Nursing is defined by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) as follows: 'Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings'. 5 In this definition, the family is appointed as part of the nurse's professional responsibility. However, 'patient-centred care' is still the most powerful motto in healthcare, and a motto that should be left behind because it no longer does justice to recent social developments.…”

The World-wide Matrix of Person Centered Medicine

“…Another key health professional organization cooperating from the start was the International Council of Nurses [27]. This was also the case for the International Alliance of Patients' Organizations [28].…”