Caring & Curing

1. Caring & Curing

2. Sketches • “Medicine is both a science and an art!” • “ Nursing is an art and science….” • Care for Lives: “You can prolong his life, but you may never ‘help’ him !” • “Balancing assessment, diagnosis, and treatment with caring defines nurses' success as primary care providers.” • “Being uniquely situated to provide holistic care to people in need of comprehensive healthcare, NPs use caring theory in their everyday practice.”

3. Definitions • Curing All means and activities necessary to restore the health in a physiological sense and with a direct impact on life expectancy. • Caring The art, practice and science of professional caring is not only central to nursing but is also complementary to the science of curing

4. CARING is to look after to some body who demands the basic health needs. CURING Is to return somebody to good health by giving him appropriate remedy. Definitions

5. CARING • feeling or showing care and compassion • Social Welfare of or relating to professional social or medical care • CURE. • Restoration of health; recovery from disease. • A method or course of medical treatment used to restore health. • Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation • To restore to health. • To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing).

6. Caring • The attitudes and behaviors that constitute caring affect both the quality of the patient's experience and the outcomes of health care. • Nurtured or discouraged by the structures of organization and financing within which health care is provided. • They have costs, so their viability is threatened as pressures increase to make health care more economically efficient. • Yet the value of caring behaviors may justify what is necessary to sustain it.

7. CARING VS CURING • Most HCP consider ‘curing’ as the most important aspect of their task, partly because they are well trained in the matter. • For most ‘technical interventions’, there is available evidence on (measurable) outcomes, avoiding the need for ‘personal involvement’.

8. Caring vs Curing • what is ‘good’ for patient? • If continues to use the ‘curing approach’, HCP will have the choice either to take a paternalistic view (I know what is best for you), OR explain all technical details in an unbiased manner to the patient and the relatives, leaving the final decision to them. • It appears that in many cases, the paternalistic approach is used.

9. Caring vs Curing • The ‘caring’ approach shifts the focus from ‘quantity’ to ‘quality’ of life. As quality of life is a subjective matter, it is not easily converted to ‘objective’ scores. • Raising “care” to the level of “cure” in the value system of the HEALTH

10. Cure and Treatment • The term "cure" means that, after medical treatment, the patient no longer has that particular condition anymore. • Some diseases can be cured. Others, like hepatitis B, have no cure. The person will always have the condition, but medical treatments can help to manage the disease

11. Cure and Treatment • When a disease can't be cured, doctors often use treatments to help control or even eliminate its symptoms and effects. • For example, one type of diabetes occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin to get glucose into cells where it can be stored or used as energy • it's possible that a disease that can be treated but not cured today may be cured in the future

12. Caring Aspects • Compassion • Competence • Confidence • Conscience • Commitment and • Comportment