Unitary Caring Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 462-464
Author(s):  
Mi Jin Doe
Keyword(s):  
Caring Science

The author in this article provides the introduction to the review of A Handbook for Caring Science: Expanding the Paradigm, edited by Rosa et al. (2019), contemplating Unitary Caring Science from a unitary transformative worldview.

scholarly journals Linking the Unitary Paradigm to Policy through a Synthesis of Caring Science and Integrative Nursing

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary S. Koithan ◽  
Mary Jo Kreitzer ◽  
Jean Watson
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Policy ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Nursing Knowledge ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Caring Science ◽  
Patient Care Delivery

The principles of integrative nursing and caring science align with the unitary paradigm in a way that can inform and shape nursing knowledge, patient care delivery across populations and settings, and new healthcare policy. The proposed policies may transform the healthcare system in a way that supports nursing praxis and honors the discipline’s unitary paradigm. This call to action provides a distinct and hopeful vision of a healthcare system that is accessible, equitable, safe, patient-centered, and affordable. In these challenging times, it is the unitary paradigm and nursing wisdom that offer a clear path forward.

Rendering LGBTQ+ Visible in Nursing: Embodying the Philosophy of Caring Science

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Goldberg ◽  
Neal Rosenburg ◽  
Jean Watson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Diversity Initiatives ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Health Care Institutions ◽  
Caring Science ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
The Media

Although health care institutions continue to address the importance of diversity initiatives, the standard(s) for treatment remain historically and institutionally grounded in a sociocultural privileging of heterosexuality. As a result, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities in health care remain largely invisible. This marked invisibility serves as a call to action, a renaissance of thinking within redefined boundaries and limitations. We must therefore refocus our habits of attention on the wholeness of persons and the diversity of their storied experiences as embodied through contemporary society. By rethinking current understandings of LGBTQ+ identities through innovative representation(s) of the media, music industry, and pop culture within a caring science philosophy, nurses have a transformative opportunity to render LGBTQ+ visible and in turn render a transformative opportunity for themselves.

A Radical RN- BS Nursing Class: Outcomes from an Integrative Yoga Elective

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carey S. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Nursing Curriculum ◽  
Stress Resilience ◽  
Caring Science ◽  
Burn Out ◽  
Upper Level

AbstractWith the knowledge of psychoneuroimmunological responses and the known high stress levels of nursing students, as caring nurse educators, we have become ethically obligated to revise and re-vision our current nursing educational practices. Nurse educators should be motivated to create innovative and radical caring science curricular approaches, so that our nurses of the future are in turn supported in creating caring- healing sustainable bedside practices. This paper details the outcomes from an upper level yoga elective in an RN- BSN program. The course is just one within an innovative holistic-integral nursing curriculum that supports nurses in practicing self-care as a way to support their ability to create caring-healing moments and spaces for patients, implement change in the workplace, and avoid the perils of burn-out related to low stress resilience, which is so common within the nursing profession.

scholarly journals Caring science research in the ambulance services: an integrative systematic review

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgitta Wireklint Sundström ◽  
Anders Bremer ◽  
Veronica Lindström ◽  
Veronica Vicente
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Caring Science
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