Nothing is more worth recognizing than nurses’ accomplishments big or small every day and thanking them for keeping the profession of caring to move on.
Nursing is a noble profession and nurses have contributed their commitment and dedication to their patients, giving comfort, support and love. Why is caring unique when given by the nurse versus given by just anyone?
Often times, we hear the common expression; “I care about you,” or “I will help you overcome this.” The nurse’s job of caring for patients is a physical manifestation of a caring attitude and calling. What then is it in the care given by a nurse that is so powerful that it can actually lead to the process of healing? Dr. Jean Watson is famous for her philosophy and science of caring and in her book published in 2005 called Caring Science as Sacred Science, she discusses the concept of caring and healing for health professionals based on moral, philosophical, and scientific framework. According to Dr. Watson, a harmony between science and the humanities acknowledges a deeper value of quality of living and dying that involves ethical, physical, moral and psychological components. Dr. Watson identified ten carative factors as the core processes involved in the professional practice of caring.
These core factors are:
- Faith and hope
- Humanistic system of values
- Sensitivity towards others
- Trust
- Expression of positivity and negativity
- Problem solving
- Promotion of learning relationships
- Provision of support, i.e. spiritually, physically, emotionally, etc.
- Fulfillment of human needs
- Promotion of transpersonal caring and love
The caring energy is powerful that enhances healing with the core factors involved in the process. The basic idea is that all around us is made up of energy and everyone emits some energy. The nurse emits a much higher frequency of caring energy than the energy of a sick patient that converge into conscious healing process thus, tapping on the inner healing field of the patient. Once the inner healing field is touched, the healing process begins.
As a professional nurse, one is equipped with nursing knowledge with the integration of the clinical carative factors, critical thinking skills, and the consciousness of caring that promotes the caring-healing relationships with the patient. This conscious caring attitude and skill is enhanced through practice over time. The caring energy that resonates from the nurse to patient restoring ones normal health is incomprehensible.
Showing how one appreciate and value the contributions of nurses to the caring nursing profession will surely provide encouragement to keep the caring energy flowing!
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