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Caring Within

Caring Within. Mary Vercoutere,RN,MSN,CNS Instructor. NURSE. Nurice An Ancient Middle English Word Nurrue An Old French Word Nutricius Latin. Terms. All Three Terms Associated With Similar Ideas.

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Caring Within

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  1. Caring Within • Mary Vercoutere,RN,MSN,CNS • Instructor

  2. NURSE Nurice An Ancient Middle English Word Nurrue An Old French Word Nutricius Latin

  3. Terms • All Three Terms Associated With Similar Ideas. • Nourishing, Cherishing, Tender Caring, Providing Curative Care, Attend to, Attention to, Nurture, Competent, Genuine.

  4. Caring as a Core Value • The Profession of Nursing. • The Relationship Between the Nurse and the Patient is the Most Essential Part of the Caring Process.

  5. In Search for Historical Caring • The Phenomenon of the CaringRelationship has been a part of Our Professional Language Since Victorian Times.

  6. Florence Nightingale Created An Art and a Science • An Exploration of the Nature of the Caring Relationship. • A Caring Relationship as a Nurturing Way of Being With Others. • Nuggets of Relevance That Empower Present-day Nursing Practice

  7. Caring Within a Profession • Florence Nightingale: A Natural Human Characteristic Transferred into a profession. • Organized Material Like Chess Pieces into a Patterned Response. • Chunking Information affects Short Term Memory, You can process Information Faster. • As Learners, We have an increased sensitivity to Patterns.

  8. “Notes on Nursing”,By F. Nightingale • Environment-Patient • Nurse-Environment • Nurse-patient • Nurse Alters the Environment to Include Nurse Verbal and Non-Verbal Interactions With Patients’

  9. A Study on Nursing • “The Influence of Caring Behaviors” By Joy Longo, RN, DNS Knowing on a Personal Level; “The Importance of Being Earnest”, By Taking the Title of This Classic Play by Oscar Wilde Literally We Learn to Understand Differences, Strengths,Weaknesses,in others, Recognizing Areas That Need Help and Support in Each Other.

  10. The Neurobiology of Empathy • What Our Friends Studying the Brain Have Brought to the Table. • Historical Intuition, a 6th Sense, • Conclusion:*” I just have a feeling,”is accurate. • Conclusion: *We can Experience the Emotions and Intentions of Another.

  11. Crucial Centers of Emotional Understanding • Brain studies have shown that in humans, emotions, feelings, motivations, ideas, and intentions are combined in one area of the Mind. • This is in the Insula and the Anterior Cingulate Cortex • (Where the Mind and Body Meet,Scientific American Mind,August 2007)

  12. Mirror Neurons • Are you Empathetic, able to read others feelings, even when they try to hide them or swallow them? • People with Greater Empathy have More Grey Matter in their Right Frontal Insula. • Mirror Neurons are Activated by another person’s emotional state.

  13. Brain Regions • People with Autism have no Mirror Neurons. • People with Schizophrenia have a Deformed Mirror Neuron area of the Brain, the Right Frontal Insula.

  14. Mind, Body, Spirit • Being Well in Touch with Your Own Emotional Inner World. • Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and a Brain Function Called Interoception: sentiment,sentience and emotional awareness. • Can We Nurture, Support, Attend to That Part of the Brain in the Education of Nursing Students?

  15. What We Didn’t Know… • We are Powerful Pre-Loaded Software. • Mirror Neurons re-play the action you see, although it didn’t happen to you. • Knowing without telling; mice studies. • Mirror Neurons and the Future of Neuro-Prosthetics.

  16. From Mice to Men • Rat A, Rat B, Rat C • Person B watches Person A do something and has a response to that. • Empathy: “The ability to look at someone’s emotional response, try it on, make a comparison and try to get your own impression.” The Neurobiology of Empathy,John Medina, Ph.D..

  17. Prayer Studies • Research and a measuredresponse to what was done but not seen. • Effect of Prayer or Meditation provided same response in Subjects. • Wellness as a Response.

  18. A Human Resource as a Recourse • Solo • With Another • In a Group • On a Team • The Greening of Relationships

  19. Caring Expanded • Can we raise that level of awareness we call empathy? • Input, body language,tone of voice. • Relationships. • Instilling Hope and gain Meaning about Illness, (“Novice to Expert”, Pat Benner). • By stories, histories, sharing.

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