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Carelee
Carelee is a new concept that stands for carer of the carer. In this case the nurse taking care of another nurse or other nurses, a role that can be assumed by one who is approved by experience, reflective enough to feel and comprehend the dynamics of this walk that we call nursing. The word must never be confused for careless since that can only be an antonym. Nevertheless carelee is not the caressing – tender - loving care type. It is one who will tell you the truth, make you come to terms with the complexity of care, build you up to face tomorrow and the realities of care with courage. Will walk with you up the flights as a nudging, prodding reminder that there is a flight of stairs up, a landing ahead and that the way down will be easier perhaps more dangerous. Note we are using of the carer not for the carer in that the responsibility of care would not be essentially be transferred to the carelee. Hopefully if we have more carelees we will reduce the drifting of our nurses, give them a reason to believe in themselves and perhaps retain many more in the profession of caring. One can allocate him or herself the role of carelee of the carer.

It is a concept that is still evolving and being worked on elsewhere by this author. Taking on the role of a carelee of the carer ought to be something many will be willing to take on in order to absorb the disappointments, frustrations, disillusionment and breakdowns that some could be going through.

They can look up, call upon, beckon, get referred to and there will be someone to walk by them upstairs and rest with them on the basement, remind them that the way down is quicker but not necessarily easier. Enjoy the cool breeze of the balcony together but remind them we cannot be there long. Help with picking the cane that fell off. Once in a while be with you down there as you recollect yourself and pick from where we left. Why because there will always be ups and downs of the caring profession. We have not yet discovered another way to it, but so is every decision to be someone’s keeper, carer, and carelee. We feel, we react, we sense, we respond, not always the way we would have liked it but it does have a meaning in our heart of hearts - the heart of caring or otherwise the hurt of caring. Cumulatively we often do take it in and not out, and this is where the problem is. We need a carelee in our careers lives. It is a collegial role that we can only escalate. We have to give back, those of us who have been there, seen it all. Mentorship, preceptorship, counselling has tried but there seems to be a middle ground in all these, the carelee. Never again should nurses ‘eat their young’ they will be mindful to know that there could be someone watching. Whether we think we can or we can’t, it is a choice one has to make of becoming carelees of the carers.

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signed (Symomash (talk) 13:51, 29 August 2016 (UTC))SMK