Compassionate Nurse

Compassionate Nurse WRITTEN BY GROUP 2B Conny Rapita Ompusunggu, Daud Halomoan Tamba, Marlisa Ania Fay, Nadia Claudya Doko

WHAT IS COMPASSION? Compassion is an essential component of the care that nurses provide (Heffernan, et all, 2010). Compassion is a positive emotion that one feels for the welfare of others which has the motivation to help alleviate their sufferings and pains (Gerber & Anaki, 2020). Compassion is applied in the form of caring and empathy. Empathy is an important part of the nurse-client relationship and which is the ability to see the world with understanding from the point of view of others in understanding one's emotions. There is special caring which helps nurses to provide good interventions so that more experienced nurses can learn that caring helps nurses to focus on clients (Potter & Perry, 2010).

Grenz and Olson assert, “Good theology assists Christians because it grounds their lives in biblically-informed, Christian truth”.Therefore, the role of Christians should reflect the image of God or Imago Dei as described in Genesis 1:27. According to the Theologian Gary Ferngren (2009), Imago Dei forms a Christian view of humanity, ethics, and service which gives confidence that every human life has intrinsic value as a bearer of God's image. Thereby compassion and care for those in need (Newbanks, Rieg, Schaefer, & Beverly, 2018).

Based on the nurse's code of ethics which emphasizes that the commitment of a nurse is based on the relationship between the nurse and the patient, the nurse and the practice environment, the nurse with peers, the nurse with the community and the nurse with the profession. Compassion becomes a nursing medium in respecting the dignity of patients, values and other attributes of each individual without prejudice. Nurses awareness of self and others, including responsibility for maintenance of integrity of character and integrity, promotion of health and safety, maintenance of competence, and processes for enhancing personal and professional growth(Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statement, 2015).

The ratio of nurses in 2016 nationally was 113.40 nurses per 100,000 population, this figure is still far from the 2019 target of 180 per 100,000. From the data that has been presented we can simply conclude that one nurse can treat more than eight patients in the hospital (Kemenkes, 2017). Being a nurse certainly requires knowledge and understanding of nursing well. The nurse must understand why the patient has to have an ECG, Why must the patient have a catheter inserted and so on. Not only that, nurses also have a role to educate, advocate, become a consultation place for their clients. When a nurse comes to a patient room, takes action then listens to patient complaints, does documentation and is about to go to sit down to the nurse station, and then the bell rings. The nurse needs compassion to carry out her responsibilities (Barahama, Katuuk, & Oroh, 2019).

Nurses need compassion as the basis of their actions, In fact the patient also needs compassion. According to Judith Allen and Arlene B. Miller in their book entitled \"Called To Care\" Through the compassion of a nurse, patients can find hope in the midst of their suffering. The compassion that the nurse has enables the patient to have a strong hope and desire to recover from his illness or make peace with his illness (Shelly and Miller, 2006).

Some of the nurse's duties, namely understanding the needs, the position of the patient, feelings and empathy make it fundamental, especially in relation to compassion. Empathy which is the ability to see the world with understanding from the point of view of others in understanding one's emotions. In addition, the higher the nurse's empathy ability, the lower the errors that occur in the treatment process. The impact received from the empathy given by nurses is that the patient's behavior has decreased levels of level, less, better self-concept. Positive effects for nurses in provide more effective health services and reduce experiences of mental stress and work fatigue.

The nature of caring is special because it depends on the nurse-client relationship. Caring actions relate to parenting activities, processes, and decisions that contain skills, empathy, affection, and support. Therefore, according to Swanson, the caring process starts from knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, and maintaining belief. Firstly, avoiding assumptions and assessing thoroughly are examples of knowing. The meaning of being with is being emotionally present to the other, such as being there and not burdening. In addition, nurses must also understand the process of doing for in which nurses try to provide comforting or preserving dignity. Then \"enabling\" can be indicated by the nurse informing or explaining something related to the client's needs. Finally maintaining belief by holding beliefs and maintaining an attitude of expectation (Potter & Perry, 2010).

Compassion is the basis for provide nursing care. This is also in line with the biblical view that man is an image of God. Compassion becomes a nursing medium in respecting the dignity, values, and other attributes of patients without prejudice. Compassion can be implemented in the form of empathy and caring.

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