Transcript MOST AUTHENTIC CRITERION OF HUMANNESS

MOST AUTHENTIC CRITERION OF
HUMANNESS
Jaime R. Soriano.RN.RM.MSN.RT.
• Sister Simone Roach, (1992), states that caring is
the human mode of being . Roach (1992) discusses
how people in healthcare professions care for
others not because they are required to do so by
their jobs, but because they are human beings and
this trait of caring is intrinsic to all humans .
According to Roach (1992) caring is the underlying
concept that forms the basis of what nurses do each
and every day.
Entailed in caring as the human mode of being are:
1. The capacity of the power to care
2. The calling forth of this capacity
3. Responsivity of being called to someone, something
who/which matters
4. The actualization of the capacity or the power to care
5. The activity or performance of caring as manifested in
specific caring behaviours
• Roach (1992) has tried to define caring from the
theological point of view, related to love, putting an
emphasis on involvement in the other individual.
• Roach (1992) reviews the various caring theories
and presents her theory from both philosophical and
theological points of view; conceptualizing the
notion of caring with five categories:
a. Ontological – Ontology is an inquiry into the being of
something and into its range of possibilities. The ontological
question asks, What is the “being” of caring? What is caring as
such?
b. Anthropological – Anthropology poses the question, What
does it mean to be a caring person?
c. Ontical – “Onticology” refers to the study of some entity in its
actual relation with other entities (Macquarrie, 1955). In this
category, functional and ethical aspects of caring are included.
What is a nurse doing when he or she is caring? What
d. Epistemological – Epistemology is concerned with ways of
knowing. Questions in this category include, Can one know
caring? How is caring known?
e. Pedagogical – the pedagogical category is concerned with
teaching and learning, and the strategies required to further
specific learning needs and goals. How is caring learned and
taught?
Roach (1992) posed an interesting question during her
work on caring. This question is: What is a nurse actually
doing when he or she is caring? The six C’s of caring have
been developed by Simone Roach (2002) in response to
this question. These six C’s are described as attributes of
caring that aid in identifying the specific caring behaviours
that a nurse engages in when providing care for a patient .
The six C’s are as
follows:
1. Compassion
2. Competence
3. Conscience
4. Confidence
5. Commitment
6. Comportment
• Compassion means to be with another in
The six C’s are as
their suffering. It is empathy and
follows:
1. COMPASSIO
sensitivity to human pain and joy that
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allows one to enter into the experience of
2. Competence
another. It is the understanding of whom
3. Conscience
that person truly is for whom one is
4. Confidence
caring. According to Simone Roach,
“With compassion, one becomes a
5. Commitment
colleague of humanity” (Roach, 1992).
6. Comportment
Compassion is an essential component
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The six C’s are as
follows:
1. Compassion
2. COMPETENCE
3. Conscience
4. Confidence
5. Commitment
6. Comportment
Competence is acquiring and using
evidence-based scientific and humanistic
knowledge and skill in the application of
therapeutic interventions in the current
practice of nursing. Competence is
reflected in the cognitive, affective and
psychomotor domains of learning. It is
the knowledge of the role of the nurse in
the health care delivery systems of the
hospital and the community.
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The six C’s are as
follows:
1. Compassion
2. Competence
3. CONSCIENCE
4. Confidence
5. Commitment
6. Comportment
Conscience directs moral, ethical and legal
decision-making. It motivates us to increase
the knowledge and skills needed to respond
appropriately to moral, ethical and legal
issues faced by one and others. It directs us
to adhere to the standards of professional
nursing practice. It directs us to respond to
social injustices. It is the increased
awareness of local, national and global
health concerns and current trends in health
care that affect all ages and populations. It is
• Confidence is trust in one’s ability to care
The six C’s are as
for others. It is the belief that our skilled,
follows:
1. Compassion
professional presence can make a
2. Competence
difference. Confidence is necessary to
effectively implement the roles of the nurse
3. Conscience
4. CONFIDENCE as caregiver, teacher, counsellor, advocate,
leader, manager and researcher.
5. Commitment
Confidence in our own ability to create
6. Comportment
caring environments serves as a catalyst
for change. Confidence empowers both us
and others to define and accomplish goals.
The six C’s are as
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follows:
1. Compassion
2. Competence
3. Conscience
4. Confidence
5. COMMITMENT
6. Comportment
Commitment is maintaining and elevating
the standards and obligations of the
nursing profession and assuring the
delivery of excellence in nursing care.
Commitment is the loyal endeavor to
devote ourselves to the welfare of patients.
It assures that caring will be part of every
nurse patient interaction. It is a conscious
effort to grow within the nursing profession
through dedication to continuing education,
• Comportment is the professional
The six C’s are as
presentation of us as nurses to others in
follows:
1. Compassion
behaviour, attitude, appearance, dress
2. Competence
and language that communicate a caring
3. Conscience
presence. It includes the need for self4. Confidence
awareness, awareness of impact of self
on others, and accepting responsibility
5. Commitment
6. COMPORTMENTfor our actions. This extends to
responsibility for the healthcare
environment and the behaviour of others
• Creativity is having a vision of how nursing
The six C’s are as
care can be, and making it better.
follows:
1. Compassion
Creativity in nursing requires thinking
2. Competence
reflectively, critically and imaginatively to
3. Conscience
create healing environments and enhance
care-giving practices. It requires the nurse
4. Confidence
to develop the qualities of envisioning, risk5. Commitment
taking, openness and resourcefulness.
6. Comportment
Creativity results in integrating new
7. CREATIVITY
insights into existing nursing knowledge
and awareness. It creates the potential for
• Caring is the core and basic foundation for nursing
practice. (skills, techniques, specialized language
are the trim)
• Caring is the vehicle through which nurses interact
with patients and assist them to cope with suffering,
to find meaning in their experiences, to promote
health and wellness and to die with dignity.
• Caring is action that nurtures; action that fosters
growth, recovery, health and protection of those who
are vulnerable. Caring is the empowering of those
for whom care is given (Roach, 1997).
• Caring is the framework through which we as
nurses implement the art and science of
professional practice.