Measurement Caring
Anggorowati
Departemen Keperawatan FK UNDIP
Caring
Transpersonal relationship between the nurse
and the patient
Harmony of body, mind, and soul (spirit)
Process of caring: “the protection,
enhancement, and preservation of the
person’s humanity
Formal measurement tools in nursing research
on caring
continuous improvement of caring through the use of
outcomes and more mindful interventions to improve practices
• the benchmarking of structures and settings and environments in which caring
is more manifest
the tracking of levels and models of caring in care settings
against routine care practices
Formal measurement tools in nursing
research on caring
Evaluation of the consequences of caring versus noncaring for both
nurses and patients
• Creation of a “report care” model of a unit or an institution in a critical area of practice
identification of areas of weakness and strength in caring processes and
interventions in order to stimulate self-correction and models of
excellence in practice
Formal measurement tools in nursing
research on caring
• Increased development of our knowledge and understanding of the
relationship between caring relationships and health and healing
• Empirical validation of extant caring theories, as well as the
generation of new theories of caring, caring relationships, and
healing-health practices
• The stimulation of new directions for curriculum and pedagogies in
nursing and caring and health sciences, including
interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary education and research.
Phenomena-instruments
• Caring science phenomena may never be fully known in totality, but
pointed toward it.
• These instruments serve as pointers along the way.
Measurement caring
• At best these measurements serve as quality empirical indicators of caring
and point back toward the deeper aspects behind the measurements.
• The fact that caring is a complex human phenomenon does not mean we
should not try to capture as much of its depth as possible.
• Clarification of assumptions can be made and reconciliations identified
between and among ontological, ethical, philosophical, epistemological,
and even practical assumptions, within the various theoretical-conceptual
system of caring.
• Fits between and among research traditions, design methods, and
processes used for the development of creative new measurement tools:
use of extant as well as new forms of caring inquiry.
• “measuring Caritas”
involves another
focus to both ground
and expand the
caring science model Measuring
while empirically Caritas
validating the
deeper dimensions
of caring, love, and
healing.
Measurement Caritas
Measurement Caritas
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