Sherpath: Ch. 7 Caring in Nursing Practice

Question 1

Leininger’s Cultural Care Theory

Answer 1

transcultural nursing. She defined it as “a substantive area of study and practice focused on comparative cultural care (caring) values, beliefs, and practices of individuals or groups of similar or different cultures with the goal of providing culture-specific and universal nursing care practices in promoting health or well-being or to help people to face unfavorable human conditions, illness, or death in culturally meaningful ways”

Question 2

Travelbee’s Interpersonal Theory of Nursing

Answer 2

focusing on a human-to-human relationship model after noting a lack of compassion in nursing care
Compassion is the core of the human-to-human relationship model and central to holistic nursing in Travelbee’s Interpersonal Theory

Question 2

Watson’s Theory of Human Caring/Caring Science

Answer 2

a holistic model of nursing suggesting that a conscious intent to provide care promotes healing and wholeness. The theory integrates human caring (the art) with healing environments (the science), incorporating life-generating and life-receiving processes for nurses and their patients

Question 3

Swanson’s Middle Range Theory of Caring

Answer 3

caring relationship focuses on the unique relational dynamics between one individual and another promoting dignity, respect, and empowerment

Question 4

The Six Cs of Caring

Answer 4

compassion
competence
confidence
conscience
commitment
comportment