How do I enact Instructor Caring?
Step 1:
Using Boykin & Schoenhofer’s “Nursing as Caring” Theory it is stated that:
“Caring for self requires experiencing self as other and yet being one with self, valuing self as special and unique, and having courage, humility, and trust to honestly know self”
AUDIO VOICE INTERPRETATION #1
Meditation #16, White Purity by Robert Ronnes
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“The more I am open to knowing and appreciating self and trying to understand the world of the other, the greater awareness of our interconnectedness on caring person.”
AUDIO VOICE INTERPRETATION #2
Deep Sky Meditation by Deep Sky Divers
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Boykin & Schoenhofer’s Nursing as Caring elements:
- Persons are caring by virtue of their humanness
- Persons are caring, moment to moment
- Persons are whole or complete in the moment
- Personhood is a process of living grounded in caring
- Personhood is enhanced through participating in nurturing relationships with caring others.
- Nursing is both a discipline and a profession.
Take a moment to write or reflect on your interpretation of these Nursing as Caring elements. What meaning do they have for you in your nursing profession and in your teaching profession.