Professor Kath McCourt FRCN

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• Professor Kath McCourt FRCN
• Dean
• School of Health Community and Education Studies
• Northumbria University
• Facing the Care Challenge in Education
• November 2010

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• The Challenge of Caring

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• Lady with the Lamp
• Selflessness and Service

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• Dragon Matron

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• The Expert Patient
• Long term conditions

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• Caring is complex

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• Increased autonomy
• Independent Practice
• Clear accountability

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• Reassurance
• Empathy
• Dignity and Respect

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• Compassion
• Acceptance
• Reflection
• Empathy

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• Student assignment
• REFLECTION
• Reflection on a positive experience of the
  nurse-patient relationship
• The following structure is provided to enable you
  to identify the different stages within
  reflection and address the relevant issues in
  this module assessment.
• Describe what happened
• In this section you should clearly outline the
  context of your experience and provide an
  overview of the patients condition and the
  reason for them receiving nursing care. This
  section should also provide details of the
  encounter and the reasons why you consider it to
  be a positive example of the nurse-patient
  relationship
• Explore thoughts and feelings
• In this section you should provide an account of
  what you felt was going on between the nurse and
  patient and clearly support this with the
  relevant literature.
• Again, you should explicitly state what the
  positive aspects of the interaction were within
  the context of the patients care needs.

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• Student assignment continued
• What was happening?
• Here you need to explore what was being achieved
  within this positive encounter
• The outcomes of this relationship for patient
  care
• Why it is important in relation to the
  patient/carer experience of health care
• What contribution nurses and nursing care makes
  to this experience
• This discussion should be supported with the
  relevant literature
• Conclusion
• In this section you should discuss how this
  experience will inform your personal and
• professional development.
• This might also include
• Actions that you might take to ensure your
  development and/or
• How you might address the same issues in future
  placements
• Again, use of the relevant literature to support
  your discussion is essential

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• Human caring and human relationships are closely
  interrelated. Human caring remains an essential
  dimension of professional work, especially in
  dealing with life crises, health maintenance
  problems and changes in health practices. The
  socialization process of preparing competent,
  sensitive and humanistic professional nurses as
  care-providers is a major challenge for the
  nursing profession.
• Madeleine Leininger (1979)
• Foreword to Nursing The Philosophy Science
  of Caring. Watson J

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• Keep caring at the heart of nursing whatever the
  future brings