Which statement about caring for patients is true?

A) Basically all patients are the same.
B) Each patient has a unique background.
C) Caring for patients requires very little experience.
D) Standard solutions exist for most patient's health care problems.

Patients are not all the same.Each person brings a unique background of experiences,values,and cultural perspectives to a health care encounter.Caring is always specific and relational for each nurse-patient encounter.As nurses acquire more experience,they learn that caring helps them to focus on the patients for whom they care.Caring facilitates a nurse's ability to know a patient,allowing the nurse to recognize a patient's problems,and to find and implement individualized solutions.