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Abstract
The nursing profession places a high value on caring and caring is the central focus of nursing practice. Caring is an attribute of the effective nurse. Curing rids the client of the disease or disability; caring nurtures the person even if the disorder is incurable.
Even though clients can not always be cured, caring is ongoing within the nurse- client relationship. While continuing to expand its theoretical base, nursing must remain firmly rooted in its essence – caring. Nursing focuses not on illness but rather on the client’s response to illness. Caring involves a passion to provide nursing services in a humanistic spirit, preserving human dignity, ensuring safety, and restoring and promoting the highest level of functioning possible.
Patients with cardiac diseases require not just excellent technical actions and good management, coordination efforts, it also demands affective care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values, assures that patient values guide the clinical decisions, and provides patients with emotional support.
A large number of theorists tried to analyze caring behaviors, Watson theory is one of them whose theory was composed of ten carative factors, which are classified as nursing actions or caring process.
Nurses are concerned with the patient as a whole and declare caring for the totality of an individual as one of the essential concepts to nursing. Thus the holistic view of a person makes caring a unique concept of nursing and distinguishes nursing from other disciplines.
The aim of this study was to assess the nurses’ caring behaviors and abilities in caring for cardiac patients.
The study was conducted in the cardiovascular department and cardiac care unit at the Main University Hospital of Alexandria. The study subjects were consisting of 23 permanent nurse staff (17 diploma nurses, 2 technical nurses, 4 bachelor nurses) and 17 intern bachelor nurse, all nurses were involved in providing patient care in the cardiovascular department and cardiac care unit. (Total nurses’ number equal 40).