Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Corso di laurea in infermieristica - Sede di Modena
| Thesis Title | From "Cure" to "Care": importance and efficacy of the helping relationship between nurses and assisted person. Planning care by using taxonomies NANDA |
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| Name | Bernabei Carola |
| Supervisor(s) | Bigliardi Maria Cristina |
| Academic Year | 2015/16 |
| Thesis type | Non research thesis |
Abstract
The helping relationship between nurse and patient provides a personalized nursing care and leads to a greater satisfaction and to better care outcomes. The establisment of an help relationship is essential in the nursing path, both for the nurse who provides cares, and for the user who receives them.
On one hand, who offers the cure often does it in an objective way with an external perspective and with the risk of identifying the patient with the disease; on the other hand, who takes care of somebody substains, participates and involves the person in the care path, considering the person as a whole. The “care” involves listening skills and emotions: it is considered not only the disease on its own, but also the person with the disease. It is possible to deduce from this the basic difference between “cure” and “care”.
In this paper I want to underline how the transition from “cure” to “care” significantly changes the traditional view of a “sick person”, by replacing the term “patient” with the term “assisted person”.
I also want to compare two clinical cases developed in pediatric and medical care settings, for which have been identified some nursing interventions that lead to empathy dimensions, listening skills, communication strategies and counseling skills.
The patient's perspective has a significant impact on his adaptation path to the disease condition, acute or chronic, and it is through the helping relationship that the nurse can make the difference within this path.
The helping relationship becomes an ethical imperative that underlies the “human caring model”, moreover, it reinforces the bond between the nurse and the assisted person, considering their human beings dimension, promoting a personal growth for both of them and a professional one for the nurse as well.