NR 500 Week 2: Artistic Expression: Caring Concept Assignment

Artistic Expression of Caring

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 knowledge 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.

Expression of Caring

A Family Nurse Practitioner provides her services in many different ways, as stated earlier in the paper. Building effective communication is extremely important part of providing care to the patients. Communication involves both, listening to the patient and providing the right advise, counselling, and education to them. The initiative to build this communication channel needs to come from nurses.

The Family Nurse Practitioner also needs to connect with the family members or guardians of the patient to calm them down, and attain their support during the treatment process. This support also allows the Family Nurse Practitioner to provide the right information to the patients and receive all the details about him. Here, it is important to account that Blais, Erb, Hayes, and Kozier (2015) suggest that it is mandatory for a nurse to spend some quality time with the patients so that they are more comfortable in sharing their condition with them.

Conclusion

Lastly, we can say that the key role of nurses in the healthcare system is to provide care and support to the patients. A Family Nurse Practitioner therefore supports, enables, and assists the patients to overcome their diseases and resume the usual routine. These patients could be physically or psychologically in need of care (Watson, 1990). To be able to do her job effectively, a Family Nurse Practitioner should be a very good listener and grasp carefully when the patient shares his problem. Her listening skills and compassion could be the most critical factors while judging the quality of services.

References

Blais, K., Hayes, J. S., Kozier, B., & Erb, G. L. (2015). Professional nursing practice: Concepts and perspectives (p. 530). Prentice Hall.

Morton, P. G., & Gallo, B. M. (2017). Critical care nursing: a holistic approach. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Ramezani, M., & Kazemnejad, A. (2014). Spiritual care in nursing: a concept analysis. International nursing review, 61(2), 211-219.

Townsend, M. C. (2014). Psychiatric mental health nursing: Concepts of care in evidence-based practice. FA Davis.

Watson, J. (1990). Caring knowledge and informed moral passion. Advances in Nursing Science, 13(1), 15-24.

The Artistic Expression: Caring Concept assignment must be completed by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. (MT) at the end of Week 2. This assignment is worth 10% of your overall grade. See the details for this assignment below and in the Course Resources page in the Introduction & Resources Module.

Based on selected form of artistic expression, this assignment may require you to submit two different files, one for the artistic expression and a paper. Please submit both files at the same time.

Purpose

Nursing practice is both an art and a science with caring as a central concept to nursing practice and the profession of nursing. Caring is influenced by the nurse’s knowledge, skills, and attitudes formed through lifelong learning and experiences. The purpose of this assessment is to explore definitions of caring in nursing. Students will create a definition of caring and an artistic expression of their perception on caring.

Course Outcomes

CO 1: Examine roles and competencies of master’s-prepared nurses essential to performing as leaders and advocates of holistic, safe, and quality care. (PO 1-5)

CO 2: Apply concepts of person-centered care to nursing practice situations. (PO 1, 2, 5)

Total Points Possible

This assessment is worth 100 points.

Due Date

Submit your file(s) by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday at the end of Week 2.

Requirements

Criteria for Content

Take a moment to reflect on how you demonstrate caring in your current professional practice.

1. Create an artistic representation of your perception on caring in nursing. The artistic expression can be a drawing, sculpture, collage, poem, short story, or dance.
   • Videos are to be 1 to 3 minutes in length.
   • Poems and short stories should not exceed one-page, double-spaced wording.
   • Drawings, pictures, or collages should be formatted on an 8 x 10 document.
   • Sculptures submitted as a jpg.
2. In a one- to two-page written paper, address the following.
   • The importance of caring to nursing practice and the profession
   • A personal definition of caring; include principles of holistic care
   • Definitions of caring found in nursing literature that support your perspective on caring
   • An explanation of the artistic expression you chose and how it represents caring
   • Summary of key concept presented in the paper.

Preparing the paper

Submission Requirements

1. Application: Use Microsoft Word 2013™ to create the written component of this assessment. 
2. Length:
   • The paper (excluding the title page and reference page) should be at least one but no more   than two pages.
   • Artistic representation:
     • Poem or short story submitted as a Word document not to exceed one-page, double-spaced wording
     • Drawing or college submit as an 8 x 10 pdf
     • Sculpture submit as a jpeg.
     • Song or dance should be at least 1 but no more than 3 minutes in length. Submit as an MP4

  3. A minimum of three (3) scholarly literature references must be used. 

  4. Submission: Submit your files.

Best Practices in Preparing the Project

The following are best practices in preparing this project.

1. Review directions thoroughly.
2. Follow submission requirements for selected type of artistic expression.
3. Make sure all elements on the grading rubric are included.
4. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal, scientific writing.
5. Title page, running head, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6th edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section of the paper except for the introduction where no heading is used.
6. Ideas and information that come from scholarly literature must be cited and referenced correctly.
7. A minimum of three (3) scholarly literature references must be used.