Caring Defined: A Comparison and Analysis
2009; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.20467/1091-5710.13.1.16
ISSN2578-2304
Autores Tópico(s)Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
ResumoThis paper explores and examines how caring is defined. Acentral emphasis is placed upon theoretical frameworks of human caring developed by a number of scholars in the field of nursing and the social sciences. In particular, the espoused theories of Milton Mayeroff, Jean Watson, Kristin Swanson, Sr. Simone Roach, Madeleine Leininger, Anne Boykin and Savinia Schoenhofer, Virginia Knowlden, Sigridur Halldorsdottir, Marilyn Ray, and Delores Gaut are compared and analyzed. Within this exploration to define caring, the lens or perspective through which each theorist views the concept of caring will become more evident, providing the nurse with a greater depth and breadth of knowledge that can be directly applied to practice.
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