Some weeks back, i got an opportunity to attend a seminar as part of Nurses day.It was a brilliant talk where the speaker narrated the life and work of FN and that was when i realised i knew little about the lady with lamp. back from seminar,i searched all most all the bookshops here and ended up buying this book.It is a great book depicting FN under various titles like…
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Caring is touching Grace itself. DELIVERING QUALITY, SERVING COMMUNITIES: NURSES LEADING CARE INNOVATIONS NURSING – A TIMELESS LEGACY Four Things Abide: Efficiency Faith Hope Love Love Is The ‘Why’ Of Nursing Efficiency Is The ‘How’ Of Nursing. When first matron approached me with this project – I found the word ‘caught’ a little strange – but once I started monitoring – I found the whole exercise not only challenging but…
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‘Caught in the act of caring’ Caring is voicing through action not words alone. A Nurses prime responsibility is to care; so what is so special about this award? And why is the project named ‘Caught in the act of caring?’. It’s ‘caring’ with a difference, just a little more than the routine caring tasks; it’s like bringing a little ‘essence of heaven’ into your caring. The word ‘caught’ implies…
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The first ‘don’t’ in an advanced technological setting is: THE NEW MODEL OF HEALTH CARE THAT HAS EMERGED IS THAT OF A CLINICAL NURSE RETURNING TO THE BEDSIDE IN A CARING, NURTURING, TEACHING ROLE WITH SHARED RESPONSIBILITY WITH THE PHYSICIANS FOR DECISION MAKING CONCERNING PATIENT CARE. REMEMBER ALWAYS: At the heart of nursing is the human being.
The non-technical element of care in high-tech environment makes the patient feel like an individual, and the patient feels ‘Cared for’
TRUSTFUL APPEAL Lord as I start my caring to day help me to fix my mind on thee; to be devoted to thee; To my profession. I prostrate before thee and promise to deal with all under my care with compassionate understanding. Please help me Lord to surrender trustfully to thee. O Lord, I give myself to Thee Thine ever, only Thine to be Christian Hymn. Remember, our spiritual life…
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“Caring is everything nothing matters but caring” (Baron. F. Von. Hugel)
As institutions look to ways of improving patient satisfaction, creating an ‘environment of caring’ is a necessary and worthwhile goal. There are 4 things that abide : Efficiency Faith Hope and Love But the greatest of these is LOVE. The ‘WHY’ of Nursing is : ‘LOVE’ The ‘HOW’ of Nursing is : ‘EFFICIENCY’ and ‘EFFECTIVE WAY, NURSING CARE IS GIVEN’. Love is the why of our life of Nursing too-…
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‘CARING IS VOICING THROUGH ACTION NOT WORDS ALONE’. “Nursing is not an adventure …….. as some have now supposed – It is very serious, delightful thing, like life, requiring training, experience, devotion, a power of accumulating, instead of losing ………. all these things” Florence Nightingale 1897 The concept of ‘Caring Care’ in Nursing: The galloping changes in the health-care-delivery’ is demanding that the CARE which is meted out to the…
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Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910 Special Feature- 101 ways to understand what caring is. Pushpa Biswas