Sensational Side of the Nurses During Intensive Care "Compassion" and Nursing

Abstract

Patients in intensive care unit are generally dependent on medical staff and they arein need of care, thus, they are in a vulnerable position. This situation necessitates that patients mustbe 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 meanthat 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 thenurse, who is a professional medical staff. Compassion may increase the quality of care because itensures giving individualized, appropriate, and accurate care, and then taking comprehensible re-sults. Compassion motivates nurses to give high quality care, and encourages patients. Absence ofcompassion in patient care influences patients and medical staff, and gives damages. Nurses, mustfirst protect their health, and bring along well-being with themselves, and show compassion tothemselves. During intensive care process, it is the nurses that give meaning to compassion, and itis the compassion that mostly removes pain, rather than treatment.

Özet

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