The patient has a colostomy but has not yet been able to look at it. The nurse teaches the patient how to care for the colostomy
The nurse sits with the patient, and together they form a plan on how to approach dealing with colostomy care. Which caring process is the nurse performing?
a. Knowing
b. Doing for
c. Enabling
d. Maintaining belief
ANS: C
Enabling is facilitating another's passage through a life transition and unfamiliar events. Working with the patient to find alternate ways to perform the task is doing just that. Knowing is striving to understand an event because it has meaning in the life of another. This must be done before enabling can occur. Doing for is doing for the other as he or she would do for self if it were at all possible. The nurse in this situation is not doing for the patient but is teaching/informing on how to care for the colostomy. Maintaining belief is sustaining faith in the other's capacity to get through an event or transition and face a future with meaning. This may be an underlying theme to the process but is not what the nurse is actually doing.
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