CARING and accomplishments.

Participation in
the experience of another.
By: Maam Federiso
CARING
COMPETENCE
- is sharing deep and genuine
concern about the welfare of Having the “knowledge, judgment, skills,
another person. energy, experience and motivation
required to respond adequately to the
CARING PRACTICE
demands of one’s professional
- involves connection, mutual responsibilities” (Roach, 2013, p. 172).
recognition, and involvement
CONFIDENCE
between nurse and client.
Comfort with self, client, and others that
CARING THEORIES
allows one to build trusting relationships.
1. Culture Care Diversity and
CONSCIENCE
Universality
o Leininger Morals, ethics, and an informed sense of
o Essence of nursing right and wrong. Awareness of personal
2. Theory of Human Care responsibility.
o Moral ideas of nursing COMMITMENT
o Watson
3. Nursing as Caring The deliberate choice to act in
o Boykin and Schoenhofer accordance with one’s desires as well
4. Theory of Bureaucratic Caring as obligations, resulting in investment of
o Ray self in a task or cause.
5. Caring, the Human Mode of COMPORTMENT
Being
o Roch Appropriate bearing, demeanor, dress,
6. Theory of Caring and language that are in harmony with a
o Swanson caring presence. Presenting oneself as
someone who respects others and
o Nurturing
demands respect.
7. Caring as “Helping the Other
Grow”
o Mayeroff

SIX C’S OF CARING IN NURSING

COMPASSION
Awareness of one’s relationship to
others, sharing their joys, sorrows, pain,
TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE IN NURSING CARING ENCOUNTERS
EMPIRICAL KNOWING: 1. Knowing the client
2. Nursing presence
The Science of Nursing
3. Empowering the client
- ranges from factual, observable 4. Compassion
phenomena 5. Competence
- (e.g., anatomy, physiology,
chemistry) to theoretical analysis
(e.g., developmental theory, MAINTAING CARING PRACTICE
adaptation theory).
CARING FOR SELF
PERSONAL KNOWING:
- Helping oneself grow and
The Therapeutic Use of Self actualize one’s possibilities
- promotes wholeness and integrity
in the personal encounter,
REFLECTING ON PRACTICE
achieves engagement rather than
detachment, and denies the - Thinking from an actual point of
manipulative or impersonal view, analyzing why one acted in
approach. a certain why and assessing the
results of one’s actions.

ETHICAL KNOWING:
The Moral Component
- focuses on “matters of obligation
or what ought to be done”
(Carper, 2009, p. 382), and goes
beyond simply observing the
nursing code of ethics.

AESTHETIC KNOWING:
The Art of Nursing
- is the art of nursing and is
expressed by the individual nurse
through his or her creativity and
style in meeting the needs of
clients.