All Nurses Need to Care

Caring is important in building patient-nurse relationships. Nurses, who take the time to get to know their patient, are show respect and understanding toward their patient’s cultural beliefs. Therefore, patients are more open minded and trusting toward their healthcare providers. “A caring relationship establishes the conditions of trust that enable the one receiving care to accept the help offered; underpinning the nurse-patient relationship or the therapeutic relationship” (Warelow, Edward, & Vinek, 2007, p. 147). When a nurse is caring for a patient, he or she is taking into consideration the whole family as well. In addition, a caring nurse always sees the patient as a whole. One important point for a nurse to know is that one should do for others what one would do for themselves.