A nurse is providing presence to a patient and the family. Which ...

[sarasara]

A nurse is providing presence to a patient and the family. Which nursing action does this involve?
 
  a. Focusing on the task that needs to be done
  b. Providing closeness and a sense of caring
  c. Jumping in to provide patient comfort
  d. Being there without an identified goal

Question 2

A nurse is using Watson's model to provide care to patients. Which carative factor will the nurse use?
 
  a. Maintaining belief
  b. Instilling faith-hope
  c. Maintaining ethics
  d. Instilling values

[alexisweber49]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Providing presence is a person-to-person encounter conveying closeness and a sense of caring. Being there seems to depend on the fact that a nurse is attentive to the patient more than the task. Being with means being available and at the patient's disposal. If the patient accepts the nurse, the nurse will be invited to see, share, and touch the patient's vulnerability and suffering. Jumping in may not be welcomed. Being there is something the nurse offers to the patient with the purpose of achieving some patient care goal.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
Watson has 10 carative factors, one of which is instilling faith-hope. Maintaining belief is a caring process of Swanson's theory. Ethics and values are important in caring but they are not examples of Watson's carative factors.

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