How to Have Patience with Patients
Why nurses need a lot of patience? Mastering the elusive quality of patience can provide surprisingly remarkable benefits.
According to M.J. Ryan, “In medical care, nurses are asked to be doing more and more with less and less. Keeping a cool head on your shoulders and having compassion is clearly something that helps. It helps create answers and solutions and it helps the body physiologically.”
He believes with a combination of desire, self-awareness and practice, anyone can develop more patience and harvest its power – the strength to remain calm and avoid the body's stress response. She explained that impatience is an mild form of anger.
Nurses can help to calm patients by acknowledging their feelings. However, nurses should be careful to maintain boundaries and insist that patients treat them with the respect you deserve as their caregiver.
Patience helps nurse managers succesfully lead, because it bestows the power to skillfully draw on mental resources in a less emotionally charged environment. It also lets practitioners view troublesome people as teachers who help strengthen us.
If nurses were not required to have patience, health care organizations would be poorer because people wouldn't utilize them, families would be burdened with the care of their own, and many sick people might be hirribly misunderstood.
Maintaining patience with your patients and having a thick skin will help you deal with the inevitable stressors that comes with such an important job.
An ability to put things in prespective aids in developing patience. Accepting how nursing actions fit into the bigger picture, your role in healing, allow caregivers to handle burdensome activities with aplomb. Not everything in life is about you, so avoid taking things personally.
Published at: 06/24/2015
