RCC and the Healthcare Practitioner
The following qualities are necessary to the practice of relationship-centered healthcare.
Self-awareness;
An essential element of the patient-practitioner relationship is self-awareness. For the practitioner-in-training, self-awareness, self-knowledge, and self-care serve as the foundation for subsequent development within other areas and ultimately as the foundation for all caring and healing relationships.
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Valuing self-awareness and developing a capacity for reflection are critical. Who practitioners are as persons is most relevant to the quality of care they give and to the quality of the relationships they are able to form. |
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Without self-knowledge, a practitioner's own emotional responses to patient needs may act as a barrier to effective care and can result in harm to the patient. |
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Self-care is essential: over the course of a lifetime of service, the practitioner is a resource for an enormous number of people. It is only reasonable that practitioners should treat themselves with the same respect and care they give to others. |
Being open-minded and nonjudgmental;
The practitioner must value the patient's right to self-determination in the context of his or her life and relationships, respect the patient's own power and self-healing process, and recognize the potential within the patient's relationships with family members and other patients e.g., through self-help groups.
An ability to understand the patient as a whole person;
Treating the patient as a whole person allows the practitioner insight into the patient's experience of health and illness and its meaning to the patient. It is important to know about an individual's life and illness and their meaning, to be able to imagine the life of the patient, and comprehend the role of family, culture, and community in the individual's progress.
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