View the ( I WILL ATTACH)Read through the scenario and answer the questions presented. When you have finished, answer one of the questions listed below.

1. As Sue prepares to administer the chemotherapy, identify three ways that she can demonstrate to Jim her caring for Mrs. Levine.

• Review Swanson’s theory of caring before you answer this question.
• Table 2-2 presents the five categories or processes of Swanson’s theory of caring:
  • Knowing
  • Being with
  • Doing for
  • Enabling
  • Maintaining belief
• The definition of “maintaining belief” is as follows: Sustaining faith in another’s capacity to get through an event or transition and face a future with meaning.
• The subdimensions for maintaining belief include:
  • Believing in/holding in esteem
  • Maintaining a hope-filled attitude
  • Offering realistic optimism
  • “Going the distance"

2. What should Sue do to show her caring for Mrs. Levine 3 hours into the infusion?

• Review the key points of this chapter before you formulate a response to this question:
  • Caring is the heart of a nurse’s ability to work with people in a respectful and therapeutic way.
  • Caring is specific and relational for each nurse–patient encounter.
  • For caring to achieve cure, nurses need to learn culturally specific behaviors and words that reflect human caring in different cultures.
  • Because illness is the human experience of loss or dysfunction, any treatment or intervention given without consideration of its meaning to the individual is likely to be worthless.
  • Caring involves a mutual give and take that develops as nurse and patient begin to know and care for one another.
  • It is difficult to show caring to individuals without gaining an understanding of who they are and their perception of their illness.
  • Presence involves a person-to-person encounter that conveys closeness and a sense of caring that involves “being there” and “being with” patients.
  • Research shows that touch, both contact and noncontact, includes task-oriented touch, caring touch, and protective touch.
  • The skillful and gentle performance of a nursing procedure conveys security and a sense of competence of the nurse.
  • Listening is not only “taking in” what a patient says; it also includes interpreting and understanding what the patient is saying and giving back that understanding.
  • Knowing the patient is at the core of the process that nurses use to make clinical decisions.