Measuring caring : international research on caritas as healing / / John Nelson, Jean Watson, editors.

• Author: Watson Caring Science Institute.
• TeilnehmendeR: Nelson, John, R.N.; Watson, Jean, 1940-; Watson Caring Science Institute.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xxiv, 436 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

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