NR 500 Week 2: Artistic Expression: Caring Concept

NR 500 Week 2: Artistic Expression: Caring Concept

Introduction

Morton and Gallo (2017) suggest that nursing practice forms the backbone of service portfolio of any healthcare organization. It establishes the much needed connect between the nurses and the patients. The primary responsibility of nurses is to provide the highest quality of care to the patients and support their family members. They are also ethically obliged to take care of the patients that they are assigned to. However, care is an extremely subjective term and its definition varies according to the context. Therefore, this paper will explore a specific definition of caring relevant for healthcare organizations. This definition especially applies to the services provided by Family Nurse Practitioner.

Definition of Caring

According to Townsend (2014), there are many ways to define the term ‘caring’ in context of a healthcare organization. Personally, as a Family Nurse Practitioner, I believe that care is all about supporting the patients who are not physically or mentally fit and need help of various kinds. This care also helps in getting the right kind of relationship between the patient and nurse. It becomes the bridge to mutual respect between the stakeholders working in the healthcare ecosystem.     `

A Family Nurse Practitioner needs to support, assist, or enable the patient and their family members to improve their health and prevent them from catching certain diseases. Therefore, these practitioners play an important role in improving the overall health of the society. According to Ramezani and Kazemnejad (2014), the services provided by a Family Nurse Practitioner forms the core of patient’s trust on the healthcare system. This is because the nurses are the first point of contact for patients and their family members. They are always around the patients in hospital to take care of their condition.

It is extremely important for the Family Nurse Practitioner to possess and execute the right knowle

NR 500 Week 2 Artistic Expression Caring Concept

dge and skills to take care of the patients facing different healthcare issues. At the same time, they also need to take care of their fellow nurses in order to maintain the environment of collaboration within the organization. The presence of a Family Nurse Practitioner calms down the patient, as they know that the nurse would manage his condition. Apart from this, the nurses could have a big impact by listening to the patients carefully and giving them the sense that they would take care of them in the tough health situations. When the patients trust the nurses, they share their conditions in better ways.