This assignment is an exploration of a patient’s lived experience of a common health challenge and the nursing student’s response to a patient’s “call for help”, guided by Paterson and Zderad’s (1976) Humanistic Nursing Theory.
For this assignment, each student will use the Call AND Response Paper Guidelines (below), choosing a patient he/she has provided care for in a medical or surgical agency setting. The student will illustrate his/her unique contribution to humanistic nursing care through coming to know this patient, recognizing, understanding and responding to this patient’s call for help, and through nurturing “well-being and more-being”. In addition, the student will articulate his/her expanded angular view, as a result of this nursing experience.1. Hearing and Recognizing the Call (8%)
Introduce your patient
Describe your angular view acknowledging any assumptions based on your previous experiences, your potential biases.
Describe your intersubjective dialogue (verbal/nonverbal) that occurred while coming to know your patient and his/her primary health challenge. Include details of your connection; what your patient may have said; not said.
Next, identify a priority biomedical call for help (e.g., dyspnea/breathlessness) from your assigned patient that required your nursing response.
2. Understanding and Responding to the Call (10%)
Clearly state and support your assessment findings that helped you to identify this call. Include subjective and objective data in your findings. Identify other patient data relevant to the call (e.g., lab values, admission history).
Identify any assessments you may have included retrospectively.
Describe your nursing responses or potential responses to the patient’s priority biomedical call for help. Your nursing response will include more than one intervention. For example, the nursing response for a patient experiencing hypoxia may include interventions such as applying oxygen, positioning, and teaching. Provide references to support all nursing interventions.
3. Well-Being and More-Being: for Patient (3.5%)
Describe how your nursing response did or did not nurture the well-being and/or more-being of your patient.
How do you know your nurtured the well-being/ more-being of your patient?
How might this interaction change your future practice?
4. Well-Being and More-Being: for Nurse (3.5%)
As a student nurse, how did your participation in the nursing situation contribute to your more-being?
How did your angular view change as a result of this interaction?
How might your expanded view(s) impact your future practice?
