The Boundaries Of Professional Nursing Practice
Nursing as a professional discipline places the greatest demands specific to the development and refinement of the caring concept for nursing. By exploring the caring concept, within the boundaries of professional nursing practice, both the capabilities and constraints of caring relative to nursing, can be identified (Kaur, Sambasivan, Kumar, 2015). For nurses, caring behaviors enhance feelings of self-accomplishment and well-being and enable them to better know their patients’ perceptions and thus enhance the quality of care provided to their patients (Dewar, et al., 2014). Additionally, caring behaviors benefit nurses at the social level by increasing their relationships with clients and by enhancing their sense of personal and professional
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Since high quality nursing care is the chief product of hospitals, now is the time for nurses to clarify the meaning and value of nursing's humanistic, caring behaviors. This knowledge can then be applied in a manner that positively influences management of hospitals and contributes to the power and status of nursing (Balmer, et al., 2007). In the practical world of nursing, it is through enactment of nurse caring behaviors that patients feel cared for, and it is important that nurse caring behaviors are perceived by the patient as intended (Cara, Nyberg & Brosseau, 2011). Identifying the caring behaviors can help nurses design interventions that are patient centric, predicated on evidence and contribute to the overall patient experience. While literatures have noted that spiritual intelligence forms the basis of nursing actions and emotional intelligence is a key to competent nursing practice (Rego, Godinho, McQueen & Cunha, 2010), the researchers aim to identify the relationship of both constructs to caring behavior. Since effective caring promotes health and a higher level of wellness (Huston, 2013), it follows that patients would benefit from systematically designed caring behaviors. Hospital orientation programs can then be built based on identified caring behaviors and can be more effective and may enhance the performance of new nurses to meet diverse patient needs. Moreover, it will aid nurse educators to operationalize the concepts and theories associated with nurse caring behaviors to benefit
Since high quality nursing care is the chief product of hospitals, now is the time for nurses to clarify the meaning and value of nursing's humanistic, caring behaviors. This knowledge can then be applied in a manner that positively influences management of hospitals and contributes to the power and status of nursing (Balmer, et al., 2007). In the practical world of nursing, it is through enactment of nurse caring behaviors that patients feel cared for, and it is important that nurse caring behaviors are perceived by the patient as intended (Cara, Nyberg & Brosseau, 2011). Identifying the caring behaviors can help nurses design interventions that are patient centric, predicated on evidence and contribute to the overall patient experience. While literatures have noted that spiritual intelligence forms the basis of nursing actions and emotional intelligence is a key to competent nursing practice (Rego, Godinho, McQueen & Cunha, 2010), the researchers aim to identify the relationship of both constructs to caring behavior. Since effective caring promotes health and a higher level of wellness (Huston, 2013), it follows that patients would benefit from systematically designed caring behaviors. Hospital orientation programs can then be built based on identified caring behaviors and can be more effective and may enhance the performance of new nurses to meet diverse patient needs. Moreover, it will aid nurse educators to operationalize the concepts and theories associated with nurse caring behaviors to benefit