Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
Bureaucratic Caring
Social-
Physical
Cultural
Educational Spiritual-
Economic
Ethical
Caring
Political
Technological
Legal
Major Concept: Caring
Caring: a complex, transcultural, relational
process, grounded in an ethical, spiritual
context. Caring is the relationship between
charity and right action, between love as
compassion in response to human
suffering and need, and justice or fairness
in terms of what ought to be done. Caring
occurs within a culture or society, including
personal culture, hospital organizational
culture, or society and global culture (Ray,
1989; Ray in Coffman, 2006; 2010, 2013).
Major Concept: Spiritual-Ethical
Caring
Spirituality involves creativity and
choice revealed in attachment, faith,
hope, love, and community. The
ethical imperatives of caring that join
with the spiritual & relate to our moral
obligation to others. Spiritual- ethical
caring for nursing focuses on how the
facilitation of choices for the good of
others (caring, healing, well-being that
should be accomplished or can be
Major Concept: Educational
Nursing/Caring
Person/Cultural Being
Health
Environment/Culture of Organization
Nursing
Nursing is holistic, transcultural &
relational, spiritual, and ethical caring that
seeks the good of self and others in
complex community, organizational, and
bureaucratic cultures.
Dwelling with the nature of nursing reveals
that the foundation of spiritual caring is
love. Love calls forth a responsible ethical
life that enables the expression of concrete
actions of caring in the lives of nurses and
for health & healing.
Person