This narrative-based work is the first to describe Human Caring Literacy from the perspective of caring scientists who "live the life" by incorporating the precepts of human caring into every aspect of their personal and professional lives. It demonstrates, for nursing students and experienced nurses in a variety of roles, the abundant ways in which Caring Science Theory powerfully informs the lives of frontline clinicians, nursing deans and faculty, APRNs, and administrators in the United States and globally.

The book goes beyond theory to illustrate how Caring Science is used every day in a variety of arenas and scenarios, ranging from the advancement of the discipline of nursing in South America to peacemaking in the Middle East. It describes the methods that help practitioners develop mindfulness, reflection, authentic presence, intentionality, and a caring consciousness in the service of providing authentic, heart-centered care for patients, their families, and societies. Designed to cultivate loving-kindness behaviors in all settings, including among nurses themselves, these narratives provide welcome alternatives to current ways of being, both professional and personal.

Provides Examples of Caring Science Theory as a Guide to:

• Advancing professional nursing practice in South America
• Transcending politics and conflict in the Middle East
• Evolving global caring consciousness through online education
• Developing nursing leaders who are heart-centered and intentional
• Exploring relationships between caring and Ubuntu in South Africa
• Teaching through simulation to promote humanistic practice

Key Features:

• Provides real examples of living the theory
• Demonstrates the use of Caring Science in leadership, practice, research, the healing arts, education, and praxis
• Illustrates practices that develop mindfulness, reflection, authentic presence, intentionality, and a caring consciousness
• Provides evidence of an evolving global caring consciousness on five continents

Contributors

Foreword Teri Pipe, PhD, RN

Preface

PART ONE: CARITAS LITERACY

1. Global Advances in Human Caring Literacy

Jean Watson

2. Advancing Caring Literacy in Practice, Education, and Health Systems

Susan M. Lee

PART TWO: CARITAS PEDAGOGIES

3. Building Global Caritas Community Through Online Education

Kathleen Sitzman

4. The Caring Science Imperative: A Hallmark in Nursing Education

Jacqueline Whelan

5. The Use of Simulation to Strengthen Humanistic Practice Among Nursing Students in the Canton of Vaud (Switzerland)

Philippe Delmas, Otilia Froger, Muriel Harduin, Sandra Gaillard-Desmedt, and Coraline Stormacq

PART THREE: CARITAS ENLIGHTENED LEADERSHIP

6. Thinking, Acting, and Leading Through Caring Science Literacy

Sara Horton-Deutsch

7. The Co-Emergence of Caritas Nursing and Professional Nursing Practice in Peru

Patrick A. Palmieri

8. Creating Intentionality and Heart-Centered Leadership in the Hospital Setting

Jacqueline A. Somerville

PART FOUR: DIVERSE FORMS OF CARITAS INQUIRY

9. Relational Caring Inquiry: The Added Value of Caring Ontology in Nursing Research

Chantal Cara, Louise O’Reilly, and Sylvain Brousseau

10. Collaborative Action Research and Evaluation: Relational Inquiry for Promoting Caring Science Literacy

Marcia Hills and Simon Carroll

11. Spirituality and Nursing: United States and Ukraine

Gayle L. Casterline

12. Seeing the Person Through the Patient: A Human Caring Reference Model for Health Care and Research

Sandra Vacchi

PART FIVE: CARITAS PRAXIS

13. Practices of Caring: A South African Perspective

Charlenè Downing

14. A Conceptual Framework for Midwifery in South Africa

Anna Nolte

15. Caritas for Society’s Safe-Keepers: Upholding Human Dignity and Caring

Joseph Giovannoni

16. Giving Voice Through Caritas Nursing

Maryanne T. Sandberg

PART SIX: CARITAS PEACE AND HEALING ARTS

17. Caring Practices in an Era of Conflict: Middle East Nurses

Julie Benbenishty and Jordan R. Hannink

18. Japanese Caritas for Peace and Change

Mayumi Tsutsui, Rina Emoto, and Jean Watson

19. Caritas Arts for Healing

Mary Rockwood Lane

Index