Category: Health & Medicine

Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice

contextualize nursing as caring. The most fundamental idea is that of person as caring with nursing conceptualized as a discipline. Our understanding of this foundation has been seasoned both from within nursing and from outside the discipline, but always with the purpose of d...

Chapters

10. CHAPTER VI -- THEORY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH

In this chapter, we will address our conception of nursing as human science and suggest directions and strategies for further development of the theory of Nursing as Caring. We...

7. CHAPTER IV. -- IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE AND NURSING SERVICE ADMINISTRATION

Foundations for practice of the Nursing as Caring theory rest on the nurse coming to know self as caring person in ever deepening and broadening dimensions. While all nurses may...

4. CHAPTER I -- FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING AS CARING

In this chapter we present the fundamental ideas related to person as caring and nursing as a discipline and profession that serves as the perspectival grounding for the theory...

9. CHAPTER V. -- IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING EDUCATION

In this chapter, we address the implications of our theory for nursing education, including designing, implementing, and administering a program of study. The assumptions that g...

3. Chapter 5 addresses issues and strategies for transforming nursing

Our understanding of nursing as a human science discipline is the central focus of Chapter 6. In this chapter, we discuss the necessity of transforming models of nursing inquiry...

5. CHAPTER II. -- NURSING AS CARING

In Chapter 2, we will present the general theory of Nursing as Caring. Here, the unique focus of nursing is posited as nurturing persons living caring and growing in caring. Whi...

6. CHAPTER III -- NURSING SITUATION AS THE LOCUS OF NURSING

The concept of nursing situation is central to every aspect of the theory of Nursing as Caring. We have claimed that all nursing knowledge resides within the nursing situation (...

8. Chapter 1 would not support arbitrary and capricious decision making

in which the input of all persons has not been discerned. Mission statements, goals, objectives, standards of practice, policies and procedures emerge from assumptions, beliefs,...

1. Chapter 1 presents a discussion of key ideas that ground and

contextualize nursing as caring. The most fundamental idea is that of person as caring with nursing conceptualized as a discipline. Our understanding of this foundation has been...

2. Chapter 3 elaborates on the idea of the nursing situation, and

illustrates the practical meaning of the theory in a range of particular nursing situations. This chapter will probably be most satisfying to the reader whose everyday nursing d...