Caring
The caring process a nurse is performing when teaching a patient how to take a capillary blood glucose and adjust insulin on a sliding scale.
enabling
A belief that the nurse-patient relationship is a partnership and that both are equal participants.
Mutuality
A critical thinking competency used by nurses to make clinical decisions.
The nursing process
adpie
The ethical principal defined as the freedom from external control or the ability or tendency to function independently.
autonomy
The ability to understand and accept another person's reality, accurately perceive feelings, and communicate this understanding to the other.
Empathy
A person-to-person encounter conveying a closeness and sense of caring.
Presence
Facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, sounds, personal appearance, posture and gait, territoriality and personal space are forms of this type of communication.
Non verbal communication
It is like instant replay. It is not intuitive. It involves playing back a situation in your mind and taking time to honestly review everything you remember about it.
Reflection
Doing good or actively promoting doing good; one of the four principles of the ethical theory of deontology
Beneficence
The ability to think in a systematic and logical manner with openness to question and reflect on the reasoning process.
Critical Thinking
A patient's perspective of caring depends on these actions - more than doing for the patient.
Providing clear, accurate information
A standardized communication technique used in healthcare. The way providers typically communicate with each other.
SBAR
The components of critical thinking according to the critical thinking model for nursing judgment.
Specific knowledge base (first)
Experience
Competencies
Attitudes
Standards
The ethical standard of fairness.
Justice
Person’s ability to understand their own emotions and those around them – then act upon these appropriately.
Emotional Intelligence
Delivery of health care based on ethical principles and standards of care. It places the nurse as the patient's advocate, solving ethical dilemmas by attending to relationships and giving priority to each patient's unique personhood
Ethic of care
The nonverbal skills that facilitate attentive listening
SOLER
The components of critical thinking according to the critical thinking model for nursing judgment.
Specific knowledge base (first)
Experience
Competencies
Attitudes
Standards
Fundamental ethical agreement to do no harm
Nonmaleficence
The agreement to keep a promise. It also refers to the unwillingness to abandon patients regardless of the circumstances, even when personal beliefs differ as they may when dealing with drug dealers, members of the gay community, women who received an abortion, or prisoners.
Fidelity
Nursing action that can be task oriented (during a procedure), caring (holding a hand), or protective (withdrawing from a patient when unable to tolerate suffering) when caring for a patient.
Touch
An interaction technique used in a therapeutic relationship to encourage patients to share personal stories.
Narrative
An assessment and communication technique that allows nurses to better understand and perceive the emotions of themselves and others.
Emotional Intelligence
A set of guiding principles that the ANA sets for nursing professionals that ensures patient advocacy.
Code of Ethics
The nursing process organizes your approach while delivering nursing care. To provide the best professional care to patients, nurses need to incorporate nursing process and these to optimize patient care.
critical thinking skills