Claire>> The implementation of the 6Cs is something that is embedded in your training
and in part of your career, and I think just voicing it now just brings it back to the
attention of nurses to remind them of what their actual duty is.
Joan>> I have the duty of care to my patients and I always try to do my best, to do my best
to my knowledge to try and achieve a goal of standard care, and without care I wouldn't
be a nurse.
Lesley>> For me compassion is about being able to put yourself in in a person's shoes
and erm.. have empathy and understanding about how you would feel if you would be in their
place.
Tina>> Competency is erm having the skills, having the knowledge, having the know how
and being able to apply those, erm in Practice.
Senga>> Communication is an essential part of practice; we have to be very skilled communicators,
er..
With our patients, with our colleagues, erm and with the public.
Michael>> Courage for me is very much erm in relation to patients is very much linked
to being an advocate for patients, and always remembering who they are and what they need
and, er being a mouthpiece for them when they aren't able to do it.
Josie>> Commitment isn't just about turning up on a Monday and finishing at 5 o clock
on a Friday, Its about giving 100% and its about ensuring that what your giving is what
you would want to receive back as well so that the level of care that we are giving
is exactly the same as what we would want and it's being dedicated.
Natasha>> I think the 6Cs are going to be a massive success erm.. even if you at the
last year, everybody talks about it now, erm I think it's an really important tool that
us as nurses and student nurses can use to say I should be doing all of these 6Cs if
I can't achieve the competence or compassion why can't I do that erm and it allows us to
put things in place to achieve everything.
Lesley>> It can be very emotional working with people with learning disabilities and
the families because the families are doing an absolute fabulous job caring for their
loved ones and obviously very stressful circumstances often the people, person with the learning
disabilities is quite happy and are very well cared for and it's the families that have
the stress.
A gentleman with learning disabilities who had a terminal illness he had been diagnosed
with a stomach cancer lived with his mum and a brother who also had learning disabilities.
The mum was an elderly lady of 82 years old.
Erm eventually erm..
Michael did have to be admitted to the hospice, mum was going everyday to see him, supported
to go everyday to see him.
In the early hours of the morning the hospice contacted both mum and myself to say that
it wouldn't be long now.. so I went and picked mum and brother and took them to the Hospice.
Mum stayed with Michael until the end of his life.
Erm then at the end of his life we needed to help Boden understand why Michael wouldn't
be coming home to the bedroom that they shared for 50 years.
Erm So we took Boden in to see Michael it was a very very moving story, I felt privileged
to be part of it.
But For me what was important with Michael's story was that, you have to balance things
and me losing a few hours sleep that I can easily catch up on compared to a mother being
unable, empowered to care for his son till the end of his life and be with him, erm there's
no comparison, I wouldn't swap it its an absolute fabulous job, well..Well its not a job it's
a vocation really.