Stress, Psychoneuroimmunology and Self-care: What Every Nurse Needs to Know

Clark, Carey S.

doi:10.4172/2167-1168.1000146

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“…Watson [14] viewed higher ordered needs as intrapersonal-interpersonal, and the practice of caring in nursing has a social and human responsibility to promote higher ordered growth in oneself and in others. In many ways, this idea of supporting others toward self-actualization and wellbeing aligns with the idea that in order to create transpersonal states of human caring, the nurse must also be on his/her own healing journey [13].…”

Section: Abraham Maslowmentioning

confidence: 81%

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Watson’s Human Caring Theory: Pertinent Transpersonal and Humanities Concepts for Educators

Clark

2016

Humanities

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Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring and the caring moment are based in part in the concepts of transpersonal psychology. This paper will provide a historical background around transpersonal psychology and how it relates to Watson's human caring moment. The purpose of explicating these humanities-based concepts is to support nurses and nurse educators in creating a deeper understanding of Watson's caring-healing moment as a time-space continuum, where the nurse's caring supports a mutually created environment for healing. The article provides useful background information, as well as outlining simple steps to revising nursing curricula so that they become supportive of nursing students' growth as transpersonal-caring beings.

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Section: Abraham Maslowmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…This deep caring that emerges in a transpersonal human caring moment aligns with what many have felt as a nurse; to support others on their healing journey [11][12][13]. "Transpersonal refers to values of deep connectedness, of relationship, subjective meaning, and shared humanity.…”

Section: Transpersonal Psychology Emergesmentioning

confidence: 92%

Watson’s Human Caring Theory: Pertinent Transpersonal and Humanities Concepts for Educators

Clark

2016

Humanities

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“…However, patients may be able to unconsciously gauge a nurse's intentions and sense if the nurse is stressed or is compassionate. 44 Nurses who are stressed or hurried in their manner may not be taking sufficient time to explain to unconscious patients what is happening, thus increasing anxiety or fear in patients with unrecognized cognition of their surroundings. 44 Some evidence 25,40,48 indicates that a diary of a patient's ICU experience kept by nurses and the patient's family members can help fill gaps in the patient's memory of the ICU stay.…”

Section: Nursing Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…44 Nurses who are stressed or hurried in their manner may not be taking sufficient time to explain to unconscious patients what is happening, thus increasing anxiety or fear in patients with unrecognized cognition of their surroundings. 44 Some evidence 25,40,48 indicates that a diary of a patient's ICU experience kept by nurses and the patient's family members can help fill gaps in the patient's memory of the ICU stay. A large multicenter, randomized study 25 included use of ICU diaries in which a patient's nurses and family members wrote daily entries and included photographs of the patient during the hospitalization.…”

Section: Nursing Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome Associated With Stays in the Intensive Care Unit: Importance of Nurses’ Involvement

Warlan

Howland

2015

Critical Care Nurse

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More patients in the intensive care unit are surviving their critical illnesses because of advances in medical care. This change in survival has led to an increased awareness of the emotional consequences of being critically ill. Posttraumatic stress disorder has been identified in approximately 9% to 27% of critically ill patients compared with 7% of the general US population. Risk factors such as treatment with mechanical ventilation, sedation, delusional memories, and agitation are associated with development of posttraumatic stress disorder in patients in the intensive care unit. Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder are more likely to experience negative physical and psychiatric health outcomes and a lower quality of life than are patients without the disorder. Early identification and treatment of patients experiencing these signs and symptoms may reduce these physical and psychological comorbid conditions. Through careful monitoring of medications, early mobilization, sleep promotion, and pain management, nurses may be able to reduce signs and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. (Critical Care Nurse. 2015;35[3]:44-54)

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“…The findings from the recent systematic and integrative reviews indicated that nursing students experience numerous stressors throughout their academic life (5,6), which affect their abilities to care for themselves and their patients (7). It has also been found that nurses and nursing students who engage in selfcare are perceived positively by patients and their families.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-care behaviors and practices of nursing students: Review of literature

Younas

2017

JHSCI

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Self-care is a vital component of nursing practice and is essential for the well-being of human beings, that is, both patients and nurses. However, nurses and nursing students tend to focus more on self-care of their patients and often pay little or no attention to personal self-care. This literature review explored self-care behaviors and practices of nursing students in general as well as across academic years of the study. In total, 11 studies were reviewed and critically appraised to identify current trends regarding nursing students’ self-care practices and behaviors in nursing literature. Nursing students realized the importance of maintaining their diet, sleep, and activity level to improve physical and physiological health. However, they tend to neglect self-care practices which could improve their emotional and psychological health because of academic stress, workload, and inadequate knowledge about the strategies to improve self-care in this domain. There is limited evidence for drawing any conclusions regarding students’ use of complementary therapies for self-care, the difference between self-care practices of nursing and non-nursing students, the usefulness of different interventions for improving students’ self-care practices, and the differences between self-care practices and behaviors of students across academic years.

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Stress, Psychoneuroimmunology and Self-care: What Every Nurse Needs to Know

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

Watson’s Human Caring Theory: Pertinent Transpersonal and Humanities Concepts for Educators

Watson’s Human Caring Theory: Pertinent Transpersonal and Humanities Concepts for Educators

Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome Associated With Stays in the Intensive Care Unit: Importance of Nurses’ Involvement

Self-care behaviors and practices of nursing students: Review of literature

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