St. Paul University Philippines
Tuguegarao City, Cagayan 3500

School of Health Science
Master of Science in Nursing

My Reflection for “Will You Be There With Me?" The Human Connection in
Oncology Nursing Care
Partial Requirement for Oncology Nursing (AAN202)

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According to the article written by Pamela Hinds, human connection in nursing is the interface between nurse and patient; nurse and family members; nurse and other clinical care team members; nurse and ideas about care; and between the nurse and self-images, including self-compassion and forgiveness. It is the most common of all elements of nursing care. Nurses are being kind, supportive, informative, and trustworthy to the patients and families. In this article, human connection between an oncology nurse and a cancer patient and the patient's family is being identified in studies as what is most memorable about treatment and what is most sustaining to families whose family member did not survive the disease. Human connection stated in this article as a source of comfort by patients and families for years after the actual care experienced. Books and lessons taught us that patients who have CA are most prone to experience psychomatic weakness and psychological vulnerability most especially when diagnosed on a later stage. This task questions us, nurses, on how we can show human connection on a patient diagnosed with CA.

We nurses, our health practitioners, trained on the hardest and most particular way before we are permitted to join the rest in the medical area, among the area’s I’ve seen, ours are the most capable of providing human connection. Human beings are built in a very special complex way that the more we are drowned into our own confusions, but somehow we managed to understand pieces of it making us capable of connecting and understanding how the human beings are built.
Being human is the only way you can create human connection on a patient human connection on a patient diagnosed with CA in that way, we somehow understand the behavior of our patient. Understanding what they are going through kills the patient’s fear of the unknown, as nurses, we are duty-bound to explain, educate, and make sure that the patient understands what he/she is going through. Support groups destroy psychological vulnerability. CA patients want someone who could listen on the grudges and resentments they feel, someone who could understand what they are going through, and someone who could they rely on.
Therapeutic communications could be a big help to overcome this vulnerability.
Supportive treatments that are tender with love and with care slay psychomatic weakness. The feeling that you’re still cared by someone is still helping and giving you chances of your prognosis these could help cultivate chances of creating human connection. Understanding on the other hand, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs could be a good help to beat psychosomatic stress.
Family members should be thought on how they could be the best support group of their loved once however; they are also filled with lot of worries, stresses, and hurts. Educating them could alleviate the fear, hurt and stress they are having as to give human touch could be a big help for them. Human touch itself remains unexplained why it has a complex way of giving comfort to others but it proves lot effectiveness.

Compassion is one of the core virtues a nurse should have especially dealing with cancer patients. It is the ability to empathize with the suffering of our patients as if it were our own. It is our desire to ease the pain experience by your patient and their families. They have to go through all these pains for them to heal. And if by the virtue of the compassion, we can somewhat ease the pain they are experiencing. Nothing beats the feeling that you are not alone, someone here understands what you are going through.
Human connections are best among the health care team since the team is composed of the most eligible practitioners in creating human connection, it would help if each member of the team would assist and facilitate to establish the implementation of the care plan, planning through collaboration would make the care plan successful. Try to feel that the team responsible for your care plan is doing the verge of their best to make you feel better isn’t that plausible to hear? Somehow, this will yield psychosomatic strength and adds-up on the body’s will to recover. Important relationships, service, and influence all start with a human connection and in order to lead a healthy, well balanced life, it is important to have some special people in your life. This makes you feel connected, loved, cared for and valued. We all need human connections to thrive and also to be the best we can be in this world.