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Reflective Journal (Clinical Assignment)

• Compose 2 Journal entries recording daily experiences with patient care.
• Reflect on course objectives and holistic nursing assessments.
• Pick two Caritas Processes- how have you have used them in your practice? How did these two processes affect the patient's care?

(do not have to use all of them; these are just the options to choose from) :) 

10 CARITAS PROCESSES®

1. Sustaining humanistic-altruistic values by practice of loving-kindness, compassion and equanimity with self/others.
2. Being authentically present, enabling faith/hope/belief system; honoring subjective inner, life-world of self/others.
3. Being sensitive to self and others by cultivating own spiritual practices; beyond ego-self to transpersonal presence.
4. Developing and sustaining loving, trusting-caring relationships.
5. Allowing for expression of positive and negative feelings - authentically listening to another person's story.
6. Creatively problem-solving- 'solution-seeking' through caring process; full use of self and artistry of caring-healing practices via use of all ways of knowing/being/doing/becoming.
7. Engaging in transpersonal teaching and learning within context of caring relationship; staying within other's frame of reference-shift toward coaching model for expanded health/wellness.
8. Creating a healing environment at all levels; subtle environment for energetic authentic caring presence.
9. Reverentially assisting with basic needs as sacred acts, touching mind/body/spirit of other; sustaining human dignity.
10. Opening to spiritual, mystery, unknowns-allowing for miracles.