Bring Discussions on the Culture of Care in Nursing to the Forefront

It is often said, “nursing is a caring profession,” But what exactly does that mean? Jean Watson, in the Theory of Human Caring,1 defines caring as values, a will, and a commitment to care, knowledge, caring actions, and consequences. However, there is more to caring than such a sterile definition. How caring is expressed will vary greatly by the nature of the situation at hand. The loss of a child will elicit a very different response than failing a nursing school pharmacology exam. An executive in the C-suite of a major health system will spend a different amount of time asking about how things are at hom e than a daycare aide on a preschool playground.
Source: Nursing Clinics of North America - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Foreword Source Type: research