Help Nurses Make Their Caring Felt Nurses care, but patients and families may not FEEL their caring.
Nurses are so swamped. Their multiple responsibilities breed task-orientation, not people-orientation. Then, seeing nurses focus on the tasks and activities of their jobs, patients and families wonder, “Where has all the caring gone?”
The caring is still there, but it might as well not be if patients and families don’t see or feel it. That’s why there’s a crying need today to help nurses speak the language of caring so that their caring reaches the people they serve. In everyday routines, there are so many opportunities to make their caring felt and ease their patients’ anxiety. For instance, when one nurse’s shift is ending and another nurse is taking over the patient’s care, the first nurse can ease the transition for the patient by speaking the language of caring duringthe shift change.