(Dinda Yunisel /1911311032/A2 2019)

Caring is a difficult subject to define as it’s the feeling which exhibit concern,
empathy in satisfying the physical, psychological, spiritual, cultural, social and emotional
needs. This can be achieved by being compassionate, loving, kind, warm, sensitive,
sympathetic, responsive, and considerate to others. Patient care is not just about the medical
aspect of nursing. Patients may experience stress about their conditions, injuries, procedures,
surgeries, or recovery. It is important for nurses to treat a patient's physical ailments as well
as his or her emotional needs. When nurses show empathy, they foster a collaborative
relationship with patients, which can help in rooting out causes, symptoms or explanations
that result in a proper diagnosis and appropriate treatments.
Sister Simone Roach came up with the five C's of caring: commitment, conscience,
competence, compassion, and confidence. The five C's are considered beneficial to improving
coworker and patient relationships and increasing a nurse's chances for career advancement.
Conscience and compassion directly relate to providing the best possible care to patients in a
morally responsible and considerate way. Nurses should always stay aware of how they
would want to be treated if they switched places with their patients.
Caring in the nursing profession takes place every time a nurse-to-patient contact is
made. The nurse enters the world of the patient in order to come to know the patient as a
caring person, and that it is from that the caring of nursing unfolds . That caring makes a
difference to the patient’s sense of well being. Caring may occur without curing but curing
cannot occur without caring. It is with that belief that nurses care for patients in the hope that
we contribute to the cure or wellbeing of that patient. By cmunicating with patients, nurses
can avoid unnecessary suffering and errors.