Our Care Culture
This week’s graded topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO).
 
CO 1: Applies principles of nursing, theories, and the care philosophies to self, colleagues, individuals, families, aggregates and communities throughout the healthcare system. (PO 1)
 
Directions
 
Discussions are designed to promote dialogue between faculty and students, and students and their peers. In discussions students:
 
Demonstrate understanding of concepts for the week
 
Integrate outside scholarly sources when required
 
Engage in meaningful dialogue with classmates and/or instructor
 
Express opinions clearly and logically, in a professional manner
 
Use the rubric on this page as you compose your answers.
 
Best Practices include:
 
Participation early in the week is encouraged to stimulate meaningful discussion among classmates and instructor.
 
Enter the discussion often during the week to read and learn from posts.
 
Select different classmates for your reply each week.
 
Discussion Questions
 
Care expressed and practiced in professional nursing models provides a way of looking at the nursing role from the aspect of care. It may seem excessive to consider aspects of caring and compassion in nursing. However, precisely because it IS nursing makes it crucial to our continual progress of defining and upholding one of our central professional principles.
 
Address each of these items:
 
Reflect on a caring and compassionate experience with a patient or family encountered in your practice.
 
How was your compassion demonstrated?
 
What other ways do you wish you would have expressed caring?
 
How does your thinking about compassion expand to include self and colleagues?
 
Please complete the iCARE Self-Assessment (Links to an external site.) and download for your own use and information. The self-assessment is not a graded item.