The Nursing Profession: The Value of Trust What gives life to a relationship? A relationship needs many values to flourish healthily. Although when it comes to relationships, everyone has their values. Nevertheless, a core value that must be present in all types of relationships is trust. Similarly to how a tree can not grow without its roots, a relationship can not grow without trust. Examining the perspective of nursing, trust is considered the foundational value of the profession due to its significance in establishing therapeutic nurse-client relationships. This paper will thoroughly examine the role of trust and aims to identify its significance and influence in the nursing profession.
How is trust identified within the nursing profession?
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To begin, trust is significant when it comes to building relationships with clients and promoting positive health outcomes. Rutherford (2015) exemplifies that trust is the enhancer of a client’s experience (as cited in Naylor et al., 2013). Enhancing a client’s experience and involvement in their care will increase the client’s commitment and therefore promote positive health outcomes. When building a therapeutic nurse-client relationship, trust must first be established to deepen client communication and the connection between the nurse and the client. The built communication and connection enable the nurse and client to work together therapeutically and produce desirable outcomes aligned with the focus of the relationship. Trust can be built through verbal communication such as speaking and nonverbal communication including eye contact. Additionally, Dalton et al. (2020) notes that empathic listening promotes trust and increases the use of respectful communication with the client. Likewise, empathic listening promotes patient-centeredness and consequently increases the client’s trust in the nurse as the client feels heard and understood. Although a nurse may have multiple goals while interacting with clients, they prioritize the process of trust-building as foundational to the relationship with their client (Dalton et al., 2020). Overall, gaining a …show more content…
In regards to this, advocacy and confidentiality have deemed themselves to be key in therapeutic nurse-client relationships. Through advocacy, the nurse gains the client’s trust when they support and recommend on behalf of the client while seeking what they believe the client would want (Rutherford, 2015). As the nurse acts on the action that would best benefit and promote the well-being of the client, the client’s trust in the nurse continues to rise. Ethically, nurses are required to maintain confidentiality with their clients. Although maintaining confidentiality is an ethical and legal responsibility, it promotes a therapeutic nurse-client relationship where the nurse is considered to be trustworthy. As the nurse is perceived to be trustworthy, clients may feel safe and trusting towards the nurse as they know their information will be kept highly confidential. As a result, advocation and maintaining confidentiality increase the trust a client has in their nurse through the expressed attribute of trustworthiness. From the client's perspective, the aspect of vulnerability increases trust among nurses. Rutherford (2015) explains that the vulnerable position clients are in when receiving care from nurses causes them to put their trust in the nurse. This sense of vulnerability can arise when nurses expose areas of the body to assess a possible concern. In a situation such as
Peplau (1988, cited by Betts, 2002, in Kenworthy et al, 2002) argues nursing as an interpersonal process. Betts (2002) argues that effective communication is intricate and obscure. Both the nurse and the patient are distinctive individuals, and they both bring with them their perceptions, values, interpretations and experiences to the interpersonal process. To achieve trust, the nurse must use openness, honesty and effective communication
By developing a sense of trust and understanding with patients through our shared perspective, I am better able to connect with them on a personal level and give them access to a secure environment. I take the time to actively listen to their needs, validate their
Philosophy of Nursing Everyone’s values and beliefs about the profession of nursing are all different. The four concepts of nursing are interrelated and all mean something different to every person, too. Throughout this paper, I will be reflecting on my values and beliefs about nursing through the four concepts while comparing them to a nursing theorist with views that are most similar to my own.
If nurses make mistakes, they have to admit it. In addition, Nurses have an ethical responsibility to keep their patients ' medical record confidentiality. Nurses shouldn 't release this confidential data to other persons. Furthermore, Nurses need to be trusted with a great deal of high profile information. A patient counts on a nurse 's professionalism and integrity to keep their medical information confidential.
There are 5 professional values that are associated with the description of a nurse. The first professional value of nursing is altruism. Altruism can describe someone who is unselfish, concerned, and devoted to helping others in need. The beauty of being a nurse is that nurses are caregivers to all.
My faith allows me the interact with my client on a different level. As a Christian, and firm believer in Christ, help me encourage my patient and give hope of a better future. My family is the second most essential values. When nurses can relate to their patient 's values, it forms a trust relationship. Just taking the talk about each other 's children can form a bond.
If we as nurses respect the confidentiality of a patient, we should do so for all the patients. However, Griffith (2007) argues that the duty of confidence should not be absolute and nurses should always consider sharing information if required. Though the principle of respecting patient autonomy and their right to confidentiality is broken here, the principle of beneficence and non-maleficence is uphold. Nurses have an obligation to protect patient’s confidentiality but the duty to warn an innocent party of imminent harm is far more critical. Therefore, breaking confidentiality here is potentially doing more good than
To allow anything to develop in a relationship, both parties must allow the variable to grow and prosper. To develop a variable such as trust, one must possess a number of personal and professional qualities. When a person trusts another person it means opening up for an action and expecting the other (trustor) to act in accordance with his/her (trustee’s) wishes, interests or will (Rortveit K. et al. 2015). The power issue between patients and nurses can cause some patients not to avail of health care services (Rortveit K. et al. 2015). Trust is an important aspect of nursing and has been the focus of nursing theory and research (Rortveit K. et al. 2015).
Nursing is a responsibility to provide the finest care regardless of the patient’s age, race, religion, sex, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or their past. Nurses must keep up to date on education, new processes, policies and keep informed about new laws and regulations in healthcare, so outstanding healthcare can be administered. As a nurse, you have undertaken a responsibility to provide people the finest quality care that can possibly receive. It is a nurses’ duty to follow the code of ethics, to act
Overall, this article can benefit to nurses as it reasembles the importance of building trust to decrease
The key to establishing a trusting relationship is the integration, usage, and mastery of therapeutic communication skills (Belcher & Jones, 2009).Due to the high importance of effective communication in mental health nursing, it is essential in therapeutic interventions. (Peplau, 1952) states that effective interpersonal skills are central to a mental health nurse’s ability to form a sound therapeutic alliance and to the role of mental health nurses. Excellent interpersonal aptitudes are what every mental health nurse needs to communicate effectively with clients. Active listening is more than just hearing what the client has to say, nurse must be actively engaging with the client, physically, emotionally and mentally. Effective listening is therefore a cognitive, behavioural and an affective process (Arnold and Underman Boggs,
This assignment is a reflection of ethical dilemmas in nursing practice as a registered nurse; this paper is based on the group assignment which was completed for NURS3004. This reflection will include an explanation of the role that I portrayed in the group, the preparation that I did for the role, what could have been done differently, how this group assignment has impacted me in terms of working in a team and finally explain how this assignment will assist me in my future clinical practice as a newly registered nurse. The role that I played in the group was a patient who has a mental health disorder and I didn’t want his mother to know about the illness, as a front it seemed as though we had a close relationship. When my mother leaves the room I asked the nurse to keep my illness confidential as she does not really understand it.
Therapeutic communication is an interaction between a nurse/ healthcare worker and a patient that helps advance the physical and emotional health of the patient by using verbal and nonverbal communication. Therapeutic communication is an active process. This communication is an important part of building a healthy interpersonal relationship, explains "Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing" .Nurses, mental health professionals and other health care professionals use therapeutic communication to educate the patient or to elicit information for analysis. The nurse uses various strategies to help the patient express their ideas and feelings in a manner that establishes respect and acceptance. This, in turn, enhances the patient 's comfort levels, encourages a feeling of safety, and increases their trust in the nurse.
Nurses around the world have struggled with ethical challenges in patient care, especially here in the Virgin Islands. We face an ethical dilemma in the healthcare field every day. During my freshman year in nursing school, I was taught about Florence Nightingales. Her greatest achievement was to transform nursing into a respectable profession for women (Florence-nightingale.co.uk, 2018). She reflected ethical duties of confidentiality, communication, and the importance of meeting patients ' needs.
There may be some cases where the nurse-client relationship might be on a personal level however, with this unique bonding nurses will be able to advocate and provide appropriate care for the patient. This is backed up by the recent research by Treymayne where he concluded that with the use of little humour between the nurse and client, it can result in a strong therapeutic relationship which is somewhat on a personal level which can then “be applied to clinical practice” (Treymayne, 2014, p.38). With the personal bond between the nurse and the patient, the patients are likely to respond well to their treatment and heal faster due to a healthy state of mind. Slight