Open AccessIs caring the same as nursing?
Author(s) -
Rudolf Cymorr Kirby P. Martinez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of health and caring sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2718-918X
pISSN - 2672-3832
DOI - 10.37719/jhcs.2020.v2i2.e002
Subject(s) - privilege (computing) , humanity , discipline , perspective (graphical) , nursing , empathy , humanism , sociology , psychology , medical education , medicine , political science , social psychology , law , social science , artificial intelligence , computer science
This editorial asserts that caring and nursing are not synonymous and that all practitioners of the helping and healing profession, with their humanness and disciplinary training, are experts in human and professional caring. Their distinctive disciplinary perspective on caring reflects the notion that our understanding of caring is always imperfect, and its concept is continuously co-evolving with humanity. No discipline or profession owns the restrictive privilege of caring knowledge or the sole expertise in caring expression, not even nursing