Caring By Dr Ali Saleh Professionalization of Caring

Caring By Dr. Ali Saleh

Professionalization of Caring practice: involves connection, mutual recognition, and involvement. With caring, nurses experience caring through knowing that they have made a difference in their clients’ lives (self actualization).

Caring as “Helping the other Grow” It was noted that to care for another person is to help him grow and actualize himself. Recognizing the other as having potential and the need to grow, the caregiver does not impose direction

Caring as “Helping the other Grow” Caring behavior includes: 1. Knowing: understanding the other’s needs and how to respond to these needs. 2. Alternating rhythms: signifies moving back and forth between the immediate and long term meanings of behavior, considering the past. 3. Patience: enables the other to grow in his own way and time.

Caring as “Helping the other Grow” 4. Honesty: includes awareness and openness to one’s own feelings and a genuineness in caring for the other. 5. Trust: involves letting go, to allow the other to grow in his own way and own time. 6. Humility: acknowledging that there is always more to learn, and that learning may come from any source.

Caring as “Helping the other Grow” 7. Hope: belief in the possibilities of the other’s growth. 8. Courage: the sense of going into the unknown, informed by insight from past experiences.