Caring and Practice: Construction of the Nurse’s World
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by Springer Publishing Company in Research and Theory for Nursing Practice
- Vol. 2 (3) , 201-216
- https://doi.org/10.1891/0889-7182.2.3.201
Abstract
Results of a study exploring the meaning for nurses of the caring relationship between nurses and patients are presented. Twenty-five nurses in their first quarter of a master’s degree program participated in semistructured, dialectical interviews. These nurses were asked to relate the language they used in talking about the nurse-patient relationship and stories from their practice illustrating the presence and absence of caring. Data analysis revealed the structure of the concept of caring. The nature of this structure is described and illustrated. The ethical contradictions inherent in the structure of the concept are discussed, and implications for the development of nursing theory are pointed out.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: