Kaiser Permanente (KP) was founded in 1945 at the height of the Great Depression (Kaiser Permanente, 2017a). Since their humble beginnings KP has strived to provide the best care possible for their patients and improve on health for their members. Kaiser has grown from a small hospital, to a large foundation by making appropriate changes and using strategic planning to ensure members receive the health care they need in terms of quality and safety. One method of strategic planning KP uses is appreciative inquiry, a method and philosophy that identifies when the facility functions at its best and builds from those situations to create a vision of the future and work towards that vision (McNamara, n.d).
What was once thought of as a profession driven by compassion and the desire to help those in need has now become filled with weary burnt out nurses who have lost sight of their purpose. Stress has caused them to distance themselves from the principles nursing is built upon. Our health care system needs to be revamped to improve the quality of care being administered. Nurses can be proactive and take steps to avoid burning out but, our health care administrators have to take matters into their hands because they have the capacity to initiate change. They must realize the gravity of the situation and take an offensive position to make a stand against the crisis of nursing
A personal health inventory for spiritual and emotional assessment is important especially for health care workers to combat burnout. Overtime, caregivers especially nurses can build up anxiety, stress, and even depression due to exhaustion. Care giving work is physically, spiritually and emotionally exhausting (Grand Canyon University HLT-310V, 2015). This paper will explore the spiritual, emotional, compassion fatigue, and burnout inventory of this author. In addition, discussed will be ways to promote spiritual, and emotional growth while combating burnout.
Introduction Nursing is known as professional discipline (Donaldson & Crowley, 1978). Nurses shortage is one of the significant issues in current nursing in Singapore and also in other countries. According to Buchan et al 2008, nurses shortage has a significant connection with a country’s historical staffing levels, country 's resources and it also estimates the demands for healthcare. Nursing shortages are unmeasureble, and they may be defined as professional capacity standards from an economical view.
CRITICAL INCIDENT ANALYSIS The aim of this report is to reflect about a critical incident that happened during my practice as an anaesthetic nurse trainee using the Gibbs reflective model (1988), which is one of the models that suits better in healthcare settings. This critical incident fits perfectly with the description made by Benner (1984) in a way that promotes nursing care with a substantial difference on the patient outcome. A critical reflection framework is a learning method that promotes a critical thinking from the past with consequent actions in the future, highlighting behaviors, assumptions and views.
For example, some anesthesiologists find it satisfying to be able to calm paranoid patients at their most vulnerable state. Anesthesiologists select their career path due to technical, academic, and practice aspects of the occupation as well as the persuasive role models in human consciousness. The several traits of a good anesthesiologist are: the clinical capability, the personality, the doctor-patient affiliation, the tactic to anesthetic care, and the outcomes. The major causes of stress are: maintaining balance between clinical care and teaching, unanticipated critical events, and administrative topics.
Challenges in providing spiritual care The need for spiritual care is clearly stated and identified for a holistic care; however, there are certain challenges that exist in providing spiritual care. It is believe that many healthcare providers including the doctors and nurses find it very challenging to initiate discussions or dialogs with patients touching aspects on their spirituality. Researchers had mentioned that, some nurses feel discomfort in having discussions on spiritual care as they do not see it as their scope of services or even as their role (Tiew & Creedy, 2010) . Some of the nurses find that such discussions are too intimate or interfering for them.
These factors provide guidelines for nurse-patient relationship, and the goal of nursing to help persons attain a higher level of harmony within the mind-body-spirit, healing and health. The 10 caritas processes include the practice of loving kindness, equanimity, and belief system for oneself and other. She promotes cultivation one’s world spiritual practices, self-awareness, authentic relationship with the patient, and support patient’s expression of feelings. In addition, she encourage to creatively use the nursing knowledge as part of the caring process, engage in genuine teaching-learning experience, and create a healing environment at all levels. Watson believes that the nurse’s assistance with patient’s basic needs potentiate alignment of the mind-body-spirit.
I thought about nursing burnout through watching the video by speaker Madelyn Blaire. Burnout is categorized as physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion. Burnout can lead to dulled emotions and detachment. I wonder why nurses are burning out.
Christian nurses are given the unique ability to provide compassionate and spiritual care to a variety of patients. The purpose of this paper is to explain my definition of nursing as a caring art, describe how Christian faith impacts caring, describe my personal philosophy of nursing while identifying my own personal values and beliefs, and discus how my beliefs impact my nursing practice. To me, nursing as an art of caring, is defined as caring for the whole person, building meaningful relationships, and providing compassionate care. Holistic nursing care involves healing a person physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I believe the art of nursing is embedded in the steps we take to address problems that are not simply physical.
The narrator talks about patients’ needs of spirituality during health crisis. Many studies have shown that spiritual well-being makes an impact on how patients respond to illness. Nurses are primary care givers, thus responsible of patients’ spiritual needs and
INTRODUCTION Spirituality is core of nursing professional identity (Hensel & Laux, 2014). It was reported that nursing students perceived high level of spirituality in them (Shores, 2010). However, it is essential to include spirituality in nursing curricula to meet the demands of the profession (Wallace et al., 2008). As nursing students experience stress to meet their academic demands and clinical requirements (Jimenez, Navia-Osorio, & Diaz, 2010). Besides, spiritual health is negatively related to stress and depression among nursing students (Lee, 2014).
The perioperative experience involves the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phase. I had the opportunity to closely observe the health care staff during the last two phases of the perioperative process. This experience allowed be to gain a better understanding of the role of nurses throughout these different phases. It was apparent that their day to day duties are different than registered nurses in other areas of the hospital. During the perioperative experience, I was able to observe the role of the registered nurses, the role of other staff members, the progression of the nursing diagnosis, and patient teaching.
Chaplains and nurses share a common interest in providing care that attends to the spiritual and religious needs of patients (Weaver, et al., 2008). Chaplains and other such disciplines can provide further education and experiences for student nurses. As previously mentioned by Tiew et al. (2012) it also opens up another sources of support for student nurses. Chaplains could teach students spiritual care from their perspective, therefore assisting students to broader views of spiritual care when practising in the clinical area and to recognise when they need to refer spiritual care to them.
But questions have been brought up regarding how spiritual care is given and how the nurse’s experience with spiritual care affects their future actions (Taylor, 2005). Furthermore, Deal (2010) argues that nurses give more importance to the physiological aspect of care and often disregard the patient’s spirit. This may be connected to the lack of spiritual care in nursing education. Despite wanting to administer spiritual care, nurses hinder themselves from doing so because of the lack of preparation in the spiritual field (Piles, 1990). Azak, Çetinkaya & Dündar (2010) stated further that even though nurses are not trained sufficiently in the topic of spiritual care, they have been known to have a high awareness on its significance in giving integrated patient
