Caring Is An Essential Value In The Personal And Professional Lives Of Nurses. This Book Is A Response To The Call For A Theory Of Nursing As Caring. The Nursing As Caring Theory Is About A Unique Way Of Living, Caring In The World. This Theory Provides A View That Can Be Lived In All Nursing Situations And Can Be Practiced Alone Or In Combination With Other Theories. Please Note There Is A Ten Copy Minimum Order For This Title.

This important book examines caring from a new age perspective, explor ing its metaphysical, holistic, and ceremonial implications. Selection s cover a variety of health and healing strategies, from Therapeutic T ouch to artistic therapies such as dance, storytelling, and sculpting. Caring as Healing challenges researchers, theorists, and nurse practi tioners to reappraise traditional assumptions about healing and human caring.

The authors' approach to creating a transforming culture through use of foundations laid in the theoretical development of "Nursing As Caring" offers a solid foundation upon which to recalibrate and reconfigure toward a caring organizational health system.

-Tim Porter-O'Grady, DM, EdD, APRN, FAAN, FACCWS
Associate Professor, Leadership Scholar, College of Nursing and Healthcare
Innovation, Arizona State University
Clinical Professor, Leadership Scholar, College of Nursing, The Ohio State University

This is a time-tested, practical guide for nurses and...