Caring

Caring

1. "feeling or showing concern for or kindness to others"

   • Positive
     • Empathizing with parents concerns
       • Creating an initial trusting relationship
     • Addressing parents and child
       • Understanding the child's age
         • Complete full assessment before making any potential diagnosis
           • Fully listening to everything parents are saying
             • Continues the trusting relationship and gives them feeling of understanding
           • Avoids alarming parents before all the information is known
         • Makes the child feel involved and creates the relationship with them
       • Shows respect for both patient and their family
   • Negative
     • Acting as if parents are overreacting
       • Questioning the parents way of caring for their child
         • Brushing off the concern because they are "new parents"
           • Not taking a mother's intuition seriously
             • Only speaking to the child or only the parents
               • Ignoring parents or child can make the nurse miss imperative health information
             • This can make the mother discouraged on what she is feeling
           • This can make parents second guess every decision which can harm the child's health
         • This can make them regret bringing their child in for care
       • Will create a negative relationship with parents
   • Caring. (2020). Retrieved November 23, 2020, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caring

2. Pediatric Population