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Shiena Rebaya

 

“The nurse is responsible for helping patient avoid and alleviate the distress of unmet needs’’- Travelbee

This theory about human-to –human relationship model teaches professionals specially nurses on how to be a “friend’’ to your patient. The way how a nurse deal with the patient fastens the early recovery and it helps them return to their healthy state. Positive nurse-patient relationship can bring very positive patient outcome. Indeed, caring and TLC touch is very essential to nursing.

Nurses not only seek to alleviate physical pain-or to render care, she ministers to the whole person. We help patient to cure the pain mentally, emotionally and spiritually, thus the nurse and the patient undergone series of interactions. Empathy is the ability to share person’s experience and have desire to understand the other person. Wherein sympathy goes beyond empathy and access when nurse desires to alleviate the cause of patient illness or suffering. We are helping the patient to look at the bright side and in a positive way.

The theory best explains a nurse dealing with Cancer patient. We all aware that cancer is not same as other normal disease. Even though, some cancers are curable, still it is cancer. Upon diagnosed, we all expect that our patient still on denial stage with all these questions such as ‘’why me’’ sometimes bursts as anger. All we need to do is encourage the patient, understand how she feels, and let her feel you not as a nurse but as a friend who will listen to her. See her as a whole person regardless of what she’s having, encourage her to be strong and be a positive person. In palliative stage, we all know that patient doesn’t need anything-but our extra tender loving care. Dying patient knows that their time of life is coming through already, that’s why they’re very emotional- thus they need our tender loving care. We help them rendering spiritual care and keeping their faith to see the real value of life. We all knew that we shouldn’t be emotionally attached to the patient but being a nurse, whose taking care of a patient from well stage until you see her dying because of disease progression, it breaks our heart-admit it or not. When you’re there seeing your patient upon admission, walking, then after couple of months you see him dying on bed (bedridden), is really heartbreaking-but we need to be strong because our patient needs us. Letting the patient feel she’s not alone even in the last breathe she takes.

“Nursing is the signature of our profession and its purpose is to create a tightly-bonded relationship with our patients….good rapport that will give birth to alleviation of one’s pain and suffering”

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