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Nurses’ perceptions of caring as documented in theory and research
Author(s) -
Patistea Evangelia
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.1999.00269.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , psychosocial , nursing , perception , field (mathematics) , psychology , empathy , quality (philosophy) , nursing theory , engineering ethics , medline , medicine , epistemology , social psychology , psychotherapist , computer science , political science , philosophy , mathematics , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , pure mathematics , law , engineering
• Caring represents an essential human need and the fundamental component of the nursing profession. • A deep understanding of caring and the way it is expressed will help nurses to provide high‐quality services and, more importantly, to understand nursing itself. • This review of the literature indicates the importance of examining caring both conceptually and operationally. • Based on theoretical and research accounts, it also presents the wide variety of ways in which caring is conceived and expressed within the professional field. • Caring is examined from anthropological, philosophical and psychosocial perspectives. • In this paper implications for practice and research are outlined.