A Study on the Development and Transformation of Caregivers’ Work Values

Dynamic Changes of Nurse-Patient Relationship From Laboring, Nursing, and Caregiving

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201201.245How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Caregivers, Work Values, Dynamic Changes, Nurse-Patient Relationship

Abstract

The caregivers play a crucial role in maintaining the health and happiness of patients, typically losing their self-management abilities. This society should appreciate their work; people in the academic world should envision their work values as well as their inner mindsets in order to provide meaningful rewards and build a favorable nurse-patient relationship. This study, taking qualitative research approaches, was conducted to in-depth understand the caregivers’ sense of work value the caregivers through and patients interviews and observing interaction behaviors with patients and their families. Authentic data resulted from a series of interviews accompanying on-site observations were analyzed and validated with triangulation according to research purpose. Finally, this study drew the following conclusions: 1. The caregivers generally possessed hearty patient-centered work values perceiving patients as friends, even family members; 2. Their hard work and enthusiastic dedication built the imperative trust as well as respect from patients and hospital professionals, which reciprocally enhanced the caregivers’ self-recognition and work values from laboring up to actualization of social contribution; 3. The caregivers transformed their sense of work values through self-recognition, enthusiastic dedication, affable interaction with colleagues and patients, and self-respect to the work and people. Caregivers work very hard in workplace, they get positive feedback, and build colorful lives of the patients, their family, and even their own.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenjen Chiang
AU  - Mingchang Wu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/03
TI  - A Study on the Development and Transformation of Caregivers’ Work Values
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1449
EP  - 1452
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201201.245
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201201.245
ID  - Chiang2020
ER  -