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. 2022 Nov;57(6):1465-1471.
doi: 10.1111/nuf.12771. Epub 2022 Jun 29.

A concept analysis of Watson's nursing Caritas process

Ayob Akbari  1 , Ahmad Nasiri  2
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A concept analysis of Watson's nursing Caritas process

Ayob Akbari et al. Nurs Forum. 2022 Nov.

Abstract

Aim: The main objective of this analysis is to give an understanding of Watson's nursing Caritas as a concept.

Design: Watson's nursing Caritas is an abstract concept, and difficult to define and operationalize because of its philosophical nature. Watson's nursing Caritas develops a clear relationship between care, caring factors, and the processes of human life.

Methods: We used Walker and Avant's method. PubMed, Scopus, Ovid, EBSCO, Science Direct, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and ProQuest were searched. "Caritas process" and "Watson's caring theory" were searched. In the primary search, 883 articles were found, but eventually, 25 articles were included in the study.

Results: We define Watson's nursing Caritas as the process based on caring consciousness, engaging in reliable human caring relationships for healing support, integrity, and development of humanity that alters the concept of caring into a higher ethical commitment inspired by responsibility for others, and different meanings, including kindness, compassion, joyfulness, and peacefulness and leads to the establishment of caring behavior in clinical Watson's nursing Caritas, thus leading to improving performance.

Conclusion: Clinical nursing Caritas enables nurses to develop an effective human being relationship between nurse-client-family, and ultimately achieve a common experience and perception of caring.

Keywords: analysis; caring; concept.

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