Disgust
This an example of something that can cause disgust in the nursing profession.
What is feces, urine, emesis, foul smells, etc.?
These can be asked in discussions to help tap into the patients' broader concerns.
What are open-ended questions?
This is matter expelled from the stomach through the mouth.
What is emesis/vomit?
A family member just learned that the patient is dying, and this is an emotion that she might be feeling.
What is sad, angry, frustrated, etc.
Should nursing care be patient focused or goal focused.
What is patient focused?
Injury to skin and underlying tissue resulting from prolonged pressure on the skin.
What is a pressure ulcer or bed sore?
A patient or family member might need this after being given difficult/sad information.
What is comfort?
This is the red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and other vertebrate animals, carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body.
What is blood?
This is how you can comfort a patient that just found out that they have a terminal illness and they are hysterically crying.
What is using a calm voice, meet their eye level and use eye contact, let them express their worries and concerns, ask about support systems, etc.
This is the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something.
What is Mindfulness?
This is a feeling of revulsion or strong disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive
What is Disgust?
A nurse should practice mindfulness and not let the patients' behaviors trigger their own emotions during these.
What are difficult encounters?
You went to get a patient up to transfer to the chair, and they defecated while standing and it went on the floor and they are embarrassed, this is something you can do to comfort them.
What is not making it a big deal, clean it up discretely, etc
This is now a patient might be feeling after waiting to be seen for 4 hours in an ED waiting room.
What is angry?
*other reasonable emotions accepted
This is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
What is Empathy?
When a nurse experiences something disgusting, they should do this to their face.
What is control?
What is making them an active participant in their care?
This is something that can cause a patients bowel movements to have a distinct smell that many people have a difficult time dealing with.
What is C.Diff or GI bleeds?
You go into a patient's room to perform care and the patient is arguing with their family and causing a big scene, this is something you can do.
What is ask what is going on, try to deescalate the situation, find a way to help and to resolve the conflict.
This is having empathy or real concern for patients coupled with a desire to take action to address the patient's need and is sensitivity to the emotional aspects of the suffering of others.
What is Compassion?
This is something used in the hospital that a nurse can put under or near their nose to help deal with intense smells.
What is peppermint oil?
These are some good ways to help deal with difficult encounters.
What is using a calm voice, listening to concerns, validating feelings, and using empathy?
You go into a patient's room to do wound care and the wound is foul smelling and has yellow drainage and the patient is embarrassed and apologizes for the smell, this is something you can do to to make the patient more comfortable.
What is telling them that this does not define them, focus on the patient, show compassion?
You go to a patients room to give them their morning meds and they yell and scream at you to get out because they don't want to take them. This is something that you can do.
What is use a calm voice, accept their wishes, be mindful of your own emotions and feelings, and ask them what you can do to help them.
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Who is Bristol?