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. 2020 Oct;21(4):e12325.
doi: 10.1111/nup.12325. Epub 2020 Sep 2.

Ideas of caring in nursing practice

Margareta Karlsson  1 , Sandra Pennbrant  1
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Ideas of caring in nursing practice

Margareta Karlsson et al. Nurs Philos. 2020 Oct.

Abstract

In nursing practice, awareness of ethical inner values and a common understanding of nursing and caring are needed. It is therefore important to highlight ideas of caring in nursing practice. The aim of this paper was to illuminate nursing, caring and ethical inner values in caring and caring in nursing practice. By being attentive, open, respectful and treating the patient as a person, nurses can enhance both their own and the patient's sense of personal meaning in the caring relationship. Nurses can use self-reflection to create an awareness of nursing, caring and ethical inner values in caring.

Keywords: ethics; ethics of care; philosophy of nursing; qualitative; theory-practice.

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