Is this a worthwhile assessment

[azalight90]

Hello

I have an essay for my Introduction to Adult Nursing class. I am studying in Scotland. I just want to know if you think that making students answer an essay like this is worthwhile or not. I am NOT asking for essay help. It is 2000 words

The essay is worth 60% of my overall class final grade. I study for 3 years.

This is the question what do you make of asking student nurses this?

Compassion is a widely acknowledged to be fundamental in the delivery of the highest standard of nursing care. The demonstration and delivery of compassionate care is not only a professional requirement (NMC 20110) but is also desired and valued by patients and careers (Scottish Government 2010)

Identify potential barriers to delivering compassionate care and discusses ways in which the nurse could overcome these.

[icuRNmaggie, BSN, RN]

Yes, I think it is worthwhile and a good topic for an essay.

In your career you are going to deal with people who are self destructive in so many ways.

You can have compassion for them, but not their behavior. If you knew where they have been, you would be glad to be you.

Just think about how you would want your family members to be treated. Even if you do not care for them at all, if they are sketchy or crooked, they are still your family.

Compassion means kindness and respect. The barriers to having compassion could be language, culture, politics, poverty, physical appearance, addiction, understaffing etc.

I have not been to Scotland and I do not even want to offer a conjecture.

Go write something from your heart.

[203bravo, MSN, APRN]

it also helps to introduce you to develop your writing style... research... and evidence based practice..

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

I think it's excellent. For one thing, it makes thoughtful students think about something other than procedures and fact memorization that dominate so much of their frontal lobes. It will (or should) lead you to think deeply about more than the cliches about caring and compassion that anybody could spit out. Try hard to surprise and gratify your faculty when you go beyond those.

What will you do when you're having a rotten day at home and you have to go to work with challenging people (staff as well as patients)?

Does selflessness enter into compassion? Must you be your own authentic self to be with (com) someone in his experience ... ?

What is your personal familial/religious/cultural perspective on caregiving? How might this be challenged when you're caring for others who may be coming from a different place?

How might you benefit from learning more about how different faiths/cultures see our duty to care for others? Where, how, and with whose help would you learn this and how to apply it?

What else important can you think of, imagining yourself as the seriously ill and helpless person in the bed? As the nurse? As the charge nurse/ward sister?

Personally, I'd like to see your essay here when you're done with it.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

I'd like to see it as well.

How would your personal religion, experiences influence your care? How would you overcome these? What if your patient was a mass murderer or have molested and kept children captive? How would that affect your care? How would you overcome this?

HOw would you feel about a parent that refused medical intervention on a pediatric patient that was refusing blood, surgery or any medical intervention?

Great topic