Be sure to address all thought questions. Caring is lived out in the nursing situation, so this is the module to truly express your understanding of what caring is and how caring is lived in nursing situations.
Describe from your practice a nursing situation in which a call for nursing was heard. Tell us how the work of a specific caring theorist guides the nursing situation you have described. The caring theorist you discuss must be different than the one you use as a focus of your group project.
Address thought questions 1-4 as they relate to your situation in this week’s Discussion Board. If you are not a nurse as yet, describe a nursing situation you have been in as a patient, and address the thought questions as you believe you would have responded.
Thought Questions:
1. What is a nursing situation and how does this differ from a nursing diagnosis?
2. What does it mean to come to know a patient as a caring person?
3. Provide at least 3 examples of “calls for nursing” from your professional experience. How does this differ from nursing interventions?
4. What might a nurse’s presence mean to a patient? Identify 2 ways a nurse might be “present.”
You must incorporate all of the thought questions into your initial response for full credit and peer responses should center on the thought questions.
Post your initial cited and referenced response the first week of the module. Be sure to include in your posting a bibliographic citation for the article you have read and are responding to. Two cited and referenced peer responses are due as well; one cited and referenced response must be in the second week of the unit, the other cited and referenced peer response can appear in either week of the module.
Thought Questions: Thought questions are intended to provide direction for your thinking as you complete each Module’s assignments. It is not expected that you answer the questions directly – Definitive answers to the questions may not appear in your reading assignments, etc. They are intended to stimulate your thinking:
How are Mayeroff’s caring characteristics embedded in the nursing situations found in the readings?
What does it mean to come to know a patient as a caring person?
Can individual nurses be assigned to enter into nursing situations with their patients?
Can nurses enter into relationships with comatose patients?
When does the nursing situation come into being?
Based on the Nursing as Caring theory, what is a “call to nursing”?
How can the nurse know the other is open to nursing?
Can a nurse’s presence be a response to a call to nursing?
How do Boykin & Schoenhofer explain their belief that their theory of nursing as caring is derived from viewing nursing as both a discipline and a profession?
What do Boykin & Schoenhofer and Roach mean when they state that persons are caring by virtue of their humanness?
What are Watson’s Carative Factors?
At the end of this learning module, students will be able to:
Discuss the assumption that every person is caring by virtue of his/her humanness
Explain what is meant by the process of caring
Discuss personhood as the process of living grounded in caring
Describe the social conception of nursing as discipline and profession
Explore the role of valuing and choosing in nursing practice
Define authentic presence
Explore the assumption that persons are always whole in the moment
Describe the importance of knowing self as caring
Describe characteristics of the actualization of the human potential to express caring
Explore nursing situations as the locus of nursing
Identify calls and responses embedded in nursing situations
Explain the difference between calls to nursing and nursing interventions
Discuss the importance of a shared sense of identity in nursing practice.
Collaborate with others to construct presentations on caring theories
Be aware of Aesthetic Final Project is due in Module 7
Read and understand Thought Questions
Required and Recommended Reading Assignments
Read and understand Caring as a Human Mode of Being
Read and understand Caring
Participate in Discussions #8
Complete and submit (via the assignment link later in module) Caring Theorist Group Project Submission
Post Group Presentation to Discussions Group Presentations Submission
Download and play the Fun Study Tool PowerPoint
Complete and submit Quiz 4
Read Looking ahead to Module 7
Please note that the Aesthetic Project presented within Module 5 will be due within MODULE 7. For project directions, please refer back to MODULE 5 – Aesthetic Project Guidelines Examples
Read Caring in Nursing Classics (Smith, Turkel, Wolf) Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5
Read: Dossey, B. M., & Keegan, L. (2016). Holistic nursing: A handbook for practice (7th ed.). Chapter 29-35 (as needed for self-care understanding)
Read Mayerhoff text, focusing on Mayeroff’s 8 caring ingredients (if the text is not available to you, a summary of this classic work is included within this module’s additional reading).
Access & Review:
Go to the webpage: http://www.watsoncaringscience.org/ Read the description of Jean Watson’s theory and its carative factors.
Roach, recently deceased, her obituary pays tribute to her work as a Caring Theorist
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/nursing-pioneer-sister-simone-roach-created-theory-of-caring/article30930516/
Boykin & Schoenhofer (2 articles are available under unit resources tab on left)
For additional information, review the following optional reading material:
Transforming practice Boykin.pdf Download Transforming practice Boykin.pdf
Mayeroff’s (1971) Ingredients of Caring Download Mayeroff’s (1971) Ingredients of Caring
Kyle-1995-Journal_of_Advanced_Nursing.pdf
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