Based on Jean Watson’s theory we will:

Patient Care Model

Women & Children’s Hospital of BuffaloA Kaleida Health Facility

Treat patients as whole beings – body, mind and spirit

Be sensitive to self and others by nurturing their beliefs

Base our practice on evidence

Provide patient teaching that addresses individual needs and learning styles

Create a healing environment

Be authentically present while building caring relationships

Extend unconditional acceptance

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Women & Children’sHospital of Buffalo

A Kaleida Health Facility

Moment of Caring

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• Creating the “Caring Moment”

• Assisting with the basic physical/emotional/spiritual

• Using evidence for caring decision- making

• Allow the patient to tell their story

• Use creative scientific problem-solving methods for caring decision-making

• Create a safe healing environment for the physical and spiritual self which includes human dignity

• Incorporate basic physical, emotional and spiritual needs

• Focus on individuals learning style and needs • Embrace altruistic values

and practice loving-kindness with self and others

• Instill faith and hope and honor others (AIDET)

• Be sensitive to self and others by nurturing individual beliefs and practices

• Be open to mystery and allow miracles

Evaluate Ability to:• Practice loving-kindness• Be authentically present• Cultivate own spiritual practices

• Sustain a loving, trusting and caring relationship• Allow for expression of feelings – authentically listen• Creative solution seeking through caring process• Reverentially and respectfully assist with basic needs • Opening and attending to spiritual, mysterious, unknown and existential dimensions of all the vicissitudes of life • Authentic teach and learn • Create a healing environment • Allow for miraclesWomen & Children’s

Hospital of BuffaloA Kaleida Health Facility

CaringProcess

“Transpersonal caring acknowledges unity of life and connections that move in concentric circles of caring from individuals to others, to community, to the world.”- Dr. Jean Watson