What types of things – tasks, caring duties, treatments – do nurses carry out?
They do things according to strict rules and policies, actions dictated by specific treatments including drugs, investigations, even surgery. If we describe these as mechanistic, then there follows those instances when healthcare workers give of themselves, developing rapport and engaging therapeutically using their sense of humanity. Putting all this together Brian came up with the diagram below: Brian’s model can take a snapshot of a situation and the various points of view that need to be addressed. This is possible because h2cm helps to shine a light on things that might otherwise be missed. As you can see in the diagram above, the simple questions that Brian asked give rise to a very broad and inclusive range of subjects or what we call here – care domains. While fairly self explanatory, broadly the subjects are: Interpersonal – Individual Psychology, Psychiatry, Cognitive Science (mind) Sciences – Anatomy & Physiology, Chemistry and Physics, Informatics (computing).
