Kristen Swanson

Question 1

Caring and miscarriage became the focus of her doctoral dissertation.

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Theory of Caring

Question 2

unexpected pregnancy loss, caregivers of premature and ill babies in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU), and socially at-risk mothers who received long-term care from master’s-prepared nurses.

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Theory of Caring

Question 3

is a nurturing way of relating to a valued other toward whom one feels a personal sense
of commitment and responsibility

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Caring

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is striving to understand the meaning of an event in the life of the other, avoiding assumptions, focusing on the person cared

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Knowing

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means being emotionally present to the other. It includes being there in person

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Being with

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means to do for others what one would do for self if at all possible, including anticipating needs, comforting while preserving his or her dignity

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Doing for

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is facilitating the other’s passage through life transitions and unfamiliar events by focusing on the event, informing, explaining, supporting,
validating feelings

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Enabling

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is sustaining faith in the other’s capacity to get
through an event or transition and face a future with meaning, maintaining a hope-filled attitude, offering realistic optimism, helping to find meaning, and

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Maintaining belief