Measuring caring : international research on caritas as healing /
International research on Caritas as healing
John Nelson, Jean Watson, editors.
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 436 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Concepts of caring as construct of Caritas / Caring science as a metaparadigm / The Caritas process of hope as a mid-range theory / 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) / Measuring caring in primary nursing / Patient and nurse perception of the individual caring relationship / Profile of a nurse effective in caring / Making the 'quantum leap' : biochemical markers of human caring science / Measurement of caring in a relationship based care model of nursing / Integrating human caring science into a professional nursing practice model / Impact of intentional caring behaviors nurses' perception of caring in the workplace, nurses intent to stay and patients' perceptions of being cared for / Caring at the core, maximizing the likelihood that a caring moment will occur / "Partners in care" : patient and staff responses to a new model of care delivery / The caring moment and participative action research (PAR) for outcomes management / Therapeutic music pilot in the context of human caring theory / CaritasheartmathTM in the emergency department setting the impact of self-care on practitioners / First measurement of Caritas in Italy / Utilization of the clinical caritas process in a selected tertiary hospital in the Philippines / Reflective practice as a process to understand caring behaviors during implementation of relationship based care in a community health service in England / A Chinese cultural perspective of nursing care in Macau, China / Comparison of caritas across three countries as perceived by patients / John Nelson [and others] -- Jean Watson -- Giuliana Masera, Karen Gutierrez -- Iris Lawrence, Mavra Kear -- Georgia Persky, Jayne Felgen, John Nelson -- Patti Leger [and others] -- Georgia Persky [and others] -- Dax Andrew Parcells, John Nelson -- Georgia Persky [and others] -- Karen Drenkard -- Anna Herbst -- Mary Ann Hozak, Maria Brennan -- Dawn Julian, Marjorie J. Bott -- Joyce Turner, M. Linda Toomer -- Shannon Spies Ingersoll, Ana M. Schaper -- Diane Raines, Peggy McCartt, Pamela Turner -- Giuliana Masera -- Reyes, P. Avecilla [and others] -- Allison Tinker, Janina Sweetham, and John Nelson -- Michelle Zhu [and others] -- John Nelson [and others].
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 born.