Health And Mindfulness Practice Case Study

Jordan (2009, p. 168) defines mindfulness “as an individual learning process characterized by a heightened awareness of the specific circumstances in a given situation”. Being mindfully present is an integral part of my nursing practice and helps me deliver safe, effective and quality care. I am aware that being present for each individual patient is key and that I also must try to avoid generalizing from my personal experiences (Weil, 2004). This allows me to also mindfully communicate and be open minded and flexible not only with my patients, but also myself and fosters a kind and compassionate environment.

The nurse also has to be aware of the nature of the nurse-patient relationship, the environment in which it takes place in, as well as an understanding of the context and the moment of the interactions in order to share a meaningful experience. Finally, nurses have to be passionate about his or her career. Nurse’s care and tend to the patients’ needs because nurses are passionate about the career. Even though the fundamental pattern of personal knowing, it provides a holistic nature of knowing. Many humanistic theories and models of nursing have been derived from personal knowing such as Peplau’s interpersonal relation theory, Kolcaba’s comfort theory, and Jean Watson’s theory of caring.

This paper examines my personal professional presence and how my personality influences both my personal and professional life. It will examine how I can use mindfulness and self-awareness to improve my professional practice with co-workers and patients and how I can bring mindfulness into my own life.

In fact, I have started practicing the diverse areas of the holistic nursing, such as holistic communication, holistic ethics, holistic education and holistic theories, and self-care, and so on. Moreover, unlike the past, I have encompassed compassion, empathy, sympathy and friendliness to a greater extent in my daily professional chores to produce more constructive health related outcomes.

When asked to develop a personal nursing philosophy caring was found to be the main component. Jean Watson’s Caring Science as Sacred Science reflects this philosophy in which caring is the predominate component needed in nursing. This paper will provided basic information on the Caring Science as Sacred Science Theory. The paper will further provide a personal example of a patient experience in which this theory shaped the care and healing of the patient. The personal experience to be shown in this paper involves a patient with complex chronic illness. The patient had been hospitalized for over a month. Patients with chronic illness and in the hospital often experience feeling powerless, scared, distant, and confined (Kay Hogan & Cleary, 2013). When these feelings persist they overcome the patient and do not allow the patient to concentrate on healing or being an active member of the healthcare team. Patients in this situation need caring and psychosocial support before moving on with medical care. However, this can often be hard for the healthcare team. When a patient has complex complications often treating these issues is all the team has time for due to patient load and institutional demands. Jean Watson (2009) recognizes this in her work Caring Science and Human Caring Theory: Transforming Personal and Professional Practices of Nursing and Health Care. Watson (2009) recognizes nurses are often torn between values of human caring

i am agree that the quote is relate to mindfulness practice and it is very important for everyone. Mindfulness practice or Mediation training can help a person to improves a wide range of willpower skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control and self-awareness of the present

Professionals working in law enforcement and mental health-related fields often develop compassion fatigue, which is a type of psychological distress caused by helping clients who have had trauma experiences in the past (Conrad & Guenther, 2006; Figley, 1995). Charles Figley (1995) labeled this phenomenon as the “cost of sharing” (p.3), which refers to the damages incurred to the professional helper’s own mental health as a result of their exposure to the traumas of their clients. Over the past

read about how mindfulness mediation can improve mood, quality of life, and attention for those adults who struggle with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). What they were trying to discover was ways to alleviate the signs or impairments that can occur with an individual with affective problems or impaired attention. Most adults with ADHD have a hard time with staying alert and attentive to their surroundings. In the study, all participants in the treatment group received an 8 week course where they were taught meditation techniques and those in the control group did not receive any sort of meditation techniques but instead were prescribed an ADHD medication to take. The medication obviously helped those not receiving the meditation

suggest that this awareness and mindfulness-based approach, which is supported in ACT therapy and positive psychology, allows for greater psychological flexibility and strength.

Mindfulness is a practice that requires an individual to be cognizant of the present state of mind. As a practice, mindfulness challenged everything that I was accustomed to. I tend to often think about the past and the future immensely, which made thinking about the present almost impossible. I preferred to reflect on the present after it happened, rather than while it was occurring. In this essay, I will be talking about how mindfulness aided me in being more accepting at Samaritans and being more forgiving in my personal life. Both values were deeply connected, and it is through mindfulness that I was able to realize how important they are.

Moreover, I believe that nursing is a career of being professional; in understanding the culture of PPN, it is that as a value of taking care of an individual beyond doubt. Beyond doubt in nursing mean, that’s been focused on the care you have been called for as the field of professional (Kirk, 2007). It is also about having considered all another negative and positive into a practice of being a professional in practicing of this call as a career. Further to this point, I do understand that valued myself is a beginning of a career of an individual being, because it involves a lot of awareness to be hygienic, proactive and ethical of being as an individual in one capacity. As such, this valued is being exercised by using a therapeutic relation between you and the client you are taking care for. Additionally, I believe that there is an immeasurable gratitude in the PPN, which as an existence of a therapeutic relationship between nurses and patients has become widely seen in the nursing literature, such that providing an empathy is essential in effective nursing care (Kirk, 2007). For example, the medical literature validates this by recognising what is termed a ‘centrality of empathy approach’, such that developing a strong therapeutic relationship between the patient and nurse /physician is seen as an integral step in the healing process (Larson & Yao, 2005). Furthermore, various conceptualisations in the nursing context are not universally agreed upon due to

The research findings suggested that the focus on healing environments needed to be primarily focused on interpersonal care, not on the physical environment such as the color of walls or architectural design. Attention to the physical aspects of the environment, while potentially aesthetically comforting, seemed less important than altering the interpersonal aspects of the environment, which is clearly desired by patients. Her first example of the importance of the social environment is that the connection with the nurses is a very important aspect of the patients well being and comfort. Patients prefer caring, nice, friendly, and attentive nurses, to which patients believed that some of their care came from the tenderness of the nurse. Her second example is that the amount of fear a patient experiences is also a big aspect of patient preference and recovery. Patients recalled feeling afraid, alone, and out of control while in the hospital. Patients felt much better while nurses reassured them and made the patient feel

The theory sees a person as a system in which its parts interrelate with each other to form a whole to perform its functions. These interrelated and interdependent parts are called subsystem which is analyzed and described in term of structural and functional requirement. There are seven subsystems – attachment, attachment-affiliation, aggressive-protective, dependency, ingestive, eliminative, and sexual with each of them interrelated with the others and its environment for three functional requirements – protection, nurturance, and stimulation. The four structural elements of the subsystem include the following: drive (the ultimate cause of behavior), set (a tendency or predisposition to act in a certain way), choice (behavior to use in a certain situation) and action (behavior of an individual). These requirements must be met through a person’s efforts or with the outside assistance of the nurse to maintain the integrity of the behavioral system.

The Behavioral System Model was influenced by the writing of Florence Nightingale (Holaday, 2014). “Johnson’s Behavioral System Model describes the person as a behavioral system with seven subsystems: the achievement, attachment-affiliative, aggressive-protective, dependency, ingestive, eliminative, and sexual subsystems” (Holaday, 2014, p. 346). The subsystems are interconnected with each other and the environment (Holaday, 2014). The structural components of the behavioral system is defined as the reason individuals are driven to meet goals or choose certain actions (Holaday, 2014). When the behavioral system is stable, there will be success. In contrast, when the behavioral system faced instability it is caused by stressors and there is tension amongst the systematic relationships (Holaday, 2014). “Nursing is an external regulatory force that acts to restore balance and stability by inhibiting, stimulating, or reinforcing certain behaviors, changing the structural components, or fulfilling function requirements” (Holaday, 2014, p. 347). Health is a result of the behavioral system being

Orem’s Theory has helped lay the ground work for modern nursing. In 1971 her theory was first published and includes three related concepts: self-care, self-care deficit and nursing systems. Orem’s theory has given direction to many nurses, inspiring them to seek better ways to develop and express the knowledge base of nursing. The purpose of her theory is to help patients and their families maintain control of their health during their lifetime. The theory consists of three parts the nursing system, self-care and self-care deficit. Care is the primary focus and the ultimate goal is health restoration. Patients are allowed to have primary control over their health and letting healthcare providers educate, promote and encourage healthy