Measuring caring : international research on Caritas as healing

Nelson, John, R.N. (Added Author). Watson, Jean, 1940- (Added Author).

Summary: Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring (Caritas) is now used in approximately 300 health care institutions in the United States and other institutions worldwide. This is the first international compendium of Caritas research, presenting the findings of 41 studies from 7 countries. The book examines similarities and differences in the ways in which each country applies Watson's Theory and documents the outcomes of these interventions. It addresses relationships between nurses and patients, nurses and their colleagues, self-care, and how Caritas is used to resolve outcome issues system-wide. The b.

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ISBN: 6613281026
ISBN: 9786613281029
ISBN: 9781283281027
ISBN: 1283281023
ISBN: 0826163513
ISBN: 9780826163516
ISBN: 0826193447
ISBN: 9780826193445
ISBN: 0826163521
ISBN: 9780826163523
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 436 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Concepts of caring as construct of Caritas / John Nelson [and others] -- Caring science as a metaparadigm / Jean Watson -- The Caritas process of hope as a mid-range theory / Giuliana Masera, Karen Gutierrez -- Psychometric testing and adaptations of the caring factor survey and other survey tools -- The practice of loving kindness to self and others as perceived by nurses and patients in the cardiac interventional unit (CIU) / Iris Lawrence, Mavra Kear -- Measuring caring in primary nursing / Georgia Persky, Jayne Felgen, John Nelson -- Patient and nurse perception of the individual caring relationship / Patti Leger [and others] -- Profile of a nurse effective in caring / Georgia Persky [and others] -- Making the 'quantum leap' : biochemical markers of human caring science / Dax Andrew Parcells, John Nelson -- Measurement of caring in a relationship based care model of nursing / Georgia Persky [and others] -- Integrating human caring science into a professional nursing practice model / Karen Drenkard -- Impact of intentional caring behaviors nurses' perception of caring in the workplace, nurses intent to stay and patients' perceptions of being cared for / Anna Herbst -- Caring at the core, maximizing the likelihood that a caring moment will occur / Mary Ann Hozak, Maria Brennan -- "Partners in care" : patient and staff responses to a new model of care delivery / Dawn Julian, Marjorie J. Bott -- The caring moment and participative action research (PAR) for outcomes management / Joyce Turner, M. Linda Toomer -- Therapeutic music pilot in the context of human caring theory / Shannon Spies Ingersoll, Ana M. Schaper -- CaritasheartmathTM in the emergency department setting the impact of self-care on practitioners / Diane Raines, Peggy McCartt, Pamela Turner -- First measurement of Caritas in Italy / Giuliana Masera -- Utilization of the clinical caritas process in a selected tertiary hospital in the Philippines / Reyes, P. Avecilla [and others] -- Reflective practice as a process to understand caring behaviors during implementation of relationship based care in a community health service in England / Allison Tinker, Janina Sweetham, and John Nelson -- A Chinese cultural perspective of nursing care in Macau, China / Michelle Zhu [and others] -- Comparison of caritas across three countries as perceived by patients / John Nelson [and others].
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.