The Model of Whole-Person Caring

The aim of this study was to investigate how the caring relationship is formed in a medical context. The data were collected using participant observation with field notes and analysed by an interpretive phenomenological method. The context circumstances in a medical milieu demanded exacting efficiency and risks to oppress the caring relationship, subsequently causing demands in nursing practice. Three themes of the caring relationship were identified as respect for each other and for themselves, responsibility to reach out to each other and engagement. Patients' and nurses' awareness in encounters drove the forming of a caring relationship that went beyond the individual nurse and patient. This study implicates the importance of an understanding of how context circumstances create the foundation of the caring relationship.

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The Influence of Nightingale Rounding by the Liaison Nurse on Surgical Patient Families With Attention to Differing Cultural Needs

Neils¹

2010

J Holist Nurs

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This article is a tribute to Florence Nightingale whose book Notes on Nursing was published 150 years ago in 1860. Nightingale was a proponent of rounding on patients to ensure their environment contributed to healing. Patients and their families experience greater satisfaction when a registered nurse rounds on them. The liaison nurse provides the connection between a surgical patient and the family in the waiting room. This activity promotes communication and spiritual support for family members who will participate in patient care both during hospitalization and after the patient returns home. Nursing theorists support the interconnectedness that takes place during rounding. Story theory directs the nurse to connect with the patient's story so that holistic care, recognizing body, mind, and spirit, can take place. High-touch/low-tech as practiced in Asia includes nurse-family interaction, integrating knowledge about the patient's history and preferences with nursing assessment, planning, interventions, and evaluation of care. Nursing diagnoses support critical thinking for the nurse during rounding and interaction with family members. Hospice care includes family stories, humor, and the comfort of presence of loved ones.

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The Model of Whole-Person Caring

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The Influence of Nightingale Rounding by the Liaison Nurse on Surgical Patient Families With Attention to Differing Cultural Needs

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