Our Care Culture

Our Care Culture
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Our Care Culture
Reflecting on a caring and compassionate experience with a patient encountered in my practice
An example of such instance occurred when I was working in a rehabilitation center. The particular case involved a teenager boy who was grappling with drug addiction. However, his excellent academic performance in school showed that the boy had a lot of potentials. Clinical clerkship showed that the major challenge which was leading him to recurrent relapses was influence from peer pressure from wrong friends (Smith, James, Brogan, Adamson & Gentleman, 2016). Unfortunately, his family had given up on him and were no longer willing to rehabilitate him because of his many disappointments. His family and friends no longer checked on him while in the hospital.
How Compassion was Demonstrated
Compassion was demonstrated in this scenario by taking time to talk, listen, and trying to understand the patient’s perspective (Smith, James, Brogan, Adamson & Gentleman, 2016). The boy was so contrite about his behavior and deeply disturbed by his family and friends’ lack of care and concern by not contacting him. As a result, the boy had lost touch and hope with his family and life, respectively. I made arrangements to establish contact with the boy’s parents which took a relatively long time, but the family was eventually traced (Sinclair et al., 2016). The boy was finally reconciled with his family and promised to avoid the wrong company and go back to school.
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