Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Conveying availability
• Sharing feelings
• Preserving dignity
Enabling:
Facilitating the other’s passage through events or transitions
by providing support and validation
• Generating alternatives
• Sustaining faith
• Offer optimism
• Providing feedback
Being with
Demonstrates availability and conveying that a person’s
experience matters. Diversity is honored and promoted
Ways to demonstrate BEING WITH:
• Providing resources
• Responding to emergencies
• Explaining to patients what we are doing for them while they are
in the hospital and identifying when they are capable of
providing that care themselves
• Skill demonstration
Enabling
Giving patients the tools to promote self care
• Be the cheerleader
• Convey availability