Views of Caring

Question 1

Benner’s Caring

Answer 1

Primary
Caring determines what matters to a person
caring helps you provide patient-centered care.

Question 2

Leininger’s Caring

Answer 2

Transcultural
Caring is an essential human need
Caring helps an individual or group improve a human condition
Caring helps to protect, develop, nurture, and sustain people.

Question 3

Watson’s Caring

Answer 3

Transpersonal
Promotes healing and wholeness
Rejects the disease orientation to health care
Places care before cure
Emphasizes the nurse-patient relationship.

Question 4

Swanson’s Caring

Answer 4

Defines caring as nurturing way of relating to an individual
States that caring is a central nursing phenomenon but is not necessarily unique to nursing practice.