"Caring is defined as a complex, transcultural, relational process, grounded in an ethical, spiritual context. As such, caring is the relationship between charity and right action, between love as compassion in response to suffering and need, and justice or fairness in terms of what ought to be done. Caring occurs with a culture or society, including personal culture, hospital organizational culture, or society or global culture."
I'm currently working as ICU Staff Nurse and assigned to patients with varying levels of need.
Based from Dr. Ray's Theory in which it suggests that caring in nursing is contextual and influenced by the organizational structure, I must say that a nurse's own self as well as what culture she's into influences the impact of quality care he/she is going to deliver. In addition, she emphasized the interconnectedness of nursing care and health care organizations.
Being involved in the direct patient care here in the unit, we are empowered to give our suggestions to our consultants on how our patients are responding to a certain treatment plan. In addition, the culture here in our unit as well as in the entire hospital gives us the confidence to speak up and be part of the health care team. The caring culture of the organization also influences us to become more patient-focused exercise care of the customer at all times from admission to discharge We are also monitoring the satisfaction rate of our patients.
Another implication of this theory in the practice is how we nurses are going to deliver quality patient care in relation to the ratio of patients we have. Though I know, it's quite difficult to have a big ratio especially if the patients are very demanding not just physically but also emotionally, we still must deliver our utmost quality of care.
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