Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring » (1st Edition)

Preface: Opening-Entering: A New Beginning Almost Thirty Years Later

Interlude

Pt. I Background 1

Pt. II Caring Science as Context 13

Ch. 1 Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring 15

Ch. 2 Carative Factors/Caritas Processes: Original and Evolved Core for Professional Nursing 29

Ch. 3 Caritas Processes: Extension of Carative Factors 39

Pt. III From Carative Factors to Caritas Processes 45

Ch. 4 From Carative Factor 1: Humanistic-Altruistic System of Values to Caritas Process 1: Cultivating the Practice of Loving-Kindness and Equanimity Toward Self and Other as Foundational to Caritas Consciousness 47

Ch. 5 From Carative Factor 2: Installation of Faith and Hope to Caritas Process 2: Being Authentically Present: Enabling, Sustaining, and Honoring the Faith, Hope, and Deep Belief System and the Inner-Subjective Life World of Self/Other 61

Ch. 6 From Carative Factor 3: Cultivation of Sensitivity to Oneself and Others to Caritas Process 3: Cultivation of One's Own Spiritual Practices and Transpersonal Self, Going Beyond Ego-Self 67

Ch. 7 From Carative Factor 4: Developing a Helping-Trusting Relationship to Caritas Process 4: Developing and Sustaining a Helping-Trusting Caring Relationship 71

Ch. 8 Theoretical Framework for Caritas/Caring Relationship 77

Ch. 9 From Carative Factor 5: Promotion and Acceptance of the Expression of Positive and Negative Feelings to Caritas Process 5: Being Present to, and Supportive of, the Expression of Positive and Negative Feelings 101

Ch. 10 From Carative Factor 6: Systematic Use of the Scientific Problem-Solving Method for Decision Making to Caritas Process6: Creative Use of Self and All Ways of Knowing as Part of the Caring Process; Engage in the Artistry of Caritas Nursing 107

Ch. 11 From Carative Factor 7: Promotion of Interpersonal Teaching and Learning to Caritas Process 7: Engage in Genuine Teaching-Learning Experience That Attends to Unity of Being and Subjective Meaning - Attempting to Stay Within the Other's Frame of Reference 125

Ch. 12 From Carative Factor 8: Attending to a Supportive, Protective, and/or Corrective Mental, Physical, Societal, and Spiritual Environment to Caritas Process 8: Creating a Healing Environment at All Levels 129

Ch. 13 From Carative Factor 9: Assistance with Gratification of Human Needs to Caritas Process 9: Administering Sacred Nursing Acts of Caring-Healing by Tending to Basic Human Needs 143

Ch. 14 Administering Sacred Nursing Acts - Further Development of Carative Factor/ Caritas Process 9 149

Ch. 15 From Carative Factor 10: Allowance for Existential-Phenomenological Forces to Caritas Process 10: Opening and Attending to Spiritual/Mysterious and Existential Unknowns of Life-Death 191

Pt. IV Expanding Knowledge-Building Frameworks for Reconsidering Caritas Nursing: The Energetic Chakra-Quadrant Model 201

Ch. 16 Integral Model for Grasping Needs in Caritas Nursing 203

Ch. 17 The Seven Chakras: An Evolving Unitary View of the Basic Needs Energy System 207

Ch. 18 The Caritas Nurse/Caritas Nursing and the Chakra Systems 223

Pt. V Health, Healing, Humanity, and Heart- Centered Knowing for Caritas Nursing 227

Ch. 19 Human Experiences: Health, Healing, and Caritas Nursing 231

Pt. VI Critiquing Nursing Education 243

Ch. 20 Caritas Curriculum and Teaching-Learning 245

Addenda 265

I Examples of Inter/National Sites Advancing Caring Science 267

II Charter: International Caritas Consortium (ICC) 277

III Draft of Working Document on "Caritas Literacy" ICC Project 281

IV International Caring Data Research ICC Projects 289

V The Watson Caring Science Institute 295

Postscript: Prescript 297

Bibliography 299

Index 307