Humanizing Nursing Care: An Analysis of Caring Theories Through the Lens of Humanism

Létourneau, Dimitri; Cara, Chantal; Goudreau, Johanne

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“…These theoreticians consider caring to be the essence of nursing and the key element of both effective nurse–patient interactions and high-quality healthcare. Furthermore, health sciences are incomplete without caring science [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ]. Even though Leininger and Watson have their own original nursing theories and ideas about nursing concepts for the year 2050, they both view caring as the essence of nursing [ 9 ].…”

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“…Human caring describes the attitudes and behaviors that demonstrate interest in and respect for patients’ psychological, social and spiritual concerns and values. Humane caring develops as a specific competence in stages through nursing education and clinical practice, in parallel with other nursing competencies such as ‘act in a professional manner’, ‘clinical reasoning in nursing’ and ‘clinical nursing leadership’ [ 8 ].…”

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Nurses’ Self-Assessment of Caring Behaviors in Nurse–Patient Interactions: A Cross-Sectional Study

Vujanić

Prlić

Lovrić

2020

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Nurse–patient interactions based on caring behaviors ensure better working conditions and better-quality healthcare. The aim of this quantitative study is to examine how nurses self-assess the frequency of applying caring behaviors in nurse–patient interactions and to identify the differences in the application frequency of caring behaviors in relation to work experience and education level. The respondents were Bachelor of Science (BSc) nurses and nurses with basic training (VET) employed in different clinical departments of the Clinical Hospital Center in Croatia. The survey used the “Caring Nurse–Patient Interactions Scale (Nurse Version)”. The respondents assessed the caring behaviors from the subscale “needs” as the most frequently applied (median (Me): 4.7; interquartile range (IQR): 4.4–4.9), while the least frequently applied were the procedures from the subscale “sensitivity” (Me: 3.8; IQR: 3.2–4.3). The VET nurses reported applying caring behaviors to the subscales “hope” (p < 0.001), “problem-solving” (p = 0.003), and “environment” (p = 0.021) more frequently than BSc nurses did. Compared with less experienced respondents, the respondents with more than 30 years of work experience applied the caring behaviors on the subscales “sensitivity” (p = 0.009), “expression of emotions” (p = 0.001), “problem-solving” (p = 0.008), and especially “humanism” and “spirituality” (p < 0.001) more frequently. The results indicate that respondents are more focused on applying skills or carrying out a task than on caring behaviors which is about demonstrating compassion, loving kindness, and relationships.

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Nurses’ Self-Assessment of Caring Behaviors in Nurse–Patient Interactions: A Cross-Sectional Study

Vujanić

Prlić

Lovrić

2020

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“…In nursing, several North American theorists were inspired by at least one of the last three thinkers, renewing these humanistic underpinnings in the context of caring (Létourneau, Cara, & Goudreau, 2017). In the current paper, caring is considered an approach grounded in humanism that shapes nursing care (Cara et al, 2016).…”

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“…The term "approach" wishes to reflect how humanistic caring is a way of being in relationships that can be witnessed in subtle attitudes (Cara et al, 2016). Originating from the nurse's consciousness, humanistic caring requires an authentic commitment to establish links of reciprocity with patients in order to heighten their human potential, promote their health and healing while preserving their human dignity (Létourneau et al, 2017). It is presumed that both the nurse's and the patient's human growth may mutually blossom as a result of humanistic caring (Cara et al, 2016;Létourneau et al, 2017).…”

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Facilitating and hindering experiences to the development of humanistic caring in the academic and clinical settings: an interpretive phenomenological study with nursing students and nurses

Létourneau

Goudreau

Cara

2020

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship

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ObjectivesThis paper reports on nursing students’ and nurses’ lived experiences mediating their development of humanistic caring.MethodsUsing interpretive phenomenology, 26 participants were individually interviewed. A five-stage phenomenological analysis based on Benner’s (Benner, P. (1994). Interpretive phenomenology: Embodiment, caring, and ethics in health and illness. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE) method occurred simultaneously.ResultsThe analysis highlighted that the development of humanistic caring is affected by role models and counterexamples, environments in which humanistic caring is exalted or trivialized, communication-related courses, patient storytelling, and work overload.ConclusionsIt might be valuable to raise the awareness of nurse educators about their opportunity in shaping the development of students’ humanistic caring.

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“…Rolfe () advocated for Gadamerian hermeneutics to become the whole foundation of nursing education and research, in the name of humanism, but in doing so recapitulated the dualist argument observed by Traynor (). Létourneau, Cara, and Goudreau () again reviewed the nursing literature and rehearsed the history of humanism in the Renaissance and Enlightenment. They highlighted the influence of Martin Buber's I‐Thou relationship and Carl Roger's person‐centred psychology on the idea of humanism‐as‐caring in nursing.…”

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A humanism for nursing?

McCaffrey

2019

Nursing Inquiry

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Humanism has appeared intermittently in the nursing literature as a concept that can be used in understanding nursing. I return to the concept in response to noticing the term appearing in the context of health humanities, where it is loosely associated both with humanities and being humane. I review the usage and critiques of humanism in both nursing and medical literature and then re‐evaluate what the idea of humanism might hold for nursing, trying to avoid the traps of an over‐determination of the human subject, or dichotomizing nursing as art or science, technology or caring. I draw on writings on humanism primarily from Emmanuel Levinas and Edward Said to emphasize strands in humanism of obligation towards others and of critical discernment within history and culture directed towards democratic practices. I discuss in passing the strong association in the UK particularly between humanism and scientism as a note of caution about the plurality of the term humanism. I conclude that humanism is a tradition that does offer productive ways of thinking about nursing with the proviso that it ought to be treated carefully as a problematic tradition and not as a new essence for nursing.

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Humanizing Nursing Care: An Analysis of Caring Theories Through the Lens of Humanism

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Nurses’ Self-Assessment of Caring Behaviors in Nurse–Patient Interactions: A Cross-Sectional Study

Nurses’ Self-Assessment of Caring Behaviors in Nurse–Patient Interactions: A Cross-Sectional Study

Facilitating and hindering experiences to the development of humanistic caring in the academic and clinical settings: an interpretive phenomenological study with nursing students and nurses

A humanism for nursing?

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