Patients in intensive care unit are generally dependent on medical staff and they are
in need of care, thus, they are in a vulnerable position. This situation necessitates that patients must
be protected and caregivers must be sensitive. The negative experience caused by the nature of in-
tensive care, losses, and restrictions reveal the necessity of sensitive care. Compassion is not syn-
onymous with feeling sorry for somebody or having mercy. In addition, compassion does not mean
that compassion needed person is weak and incapable. In fact, compassion is an important and valu-
able feeling that holds people together during painful times or during other similar troubled times.
Complexity of compassion is based on its subjective nature, and it represents “sensitive side” of the
nurse, who is a professional medical staff. Compassion may increase the quality of care because it
ensures giving individualized, appropriate, and accurate care, and then taking comprehensible re-
sults. Compassion motivates nurses to give high quality care, and encourages patients. Absence of
compassion in patient care influences patients and medical staff, and gives damages. Nurses, must
first protect their health, and bring along well-being with themselves, and show compassion to
themselves. During intensive care process, it is the nurses that give meaning to compassion, and it
is the compassion that mostly removes pain, rather than treatment.
Konular | Hemşirelik |
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Bölüm | Derleme |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 10 Aralık 2016 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2016 Cilt: 20 Sayı: 2 |
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