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Caritative Care Theory Overview

Katie Eriksson developed the Caritative Care Theory based on her experience as a nursing instructor and professor in Finland. The theory distinguishes between caring ethics, the practical relationship between patient and nurse, and nursing ethics. It views caring and suffering through a lens of preserving human dignity and sees the nurse-patient relationship as core to nursing ethics. The theory also examines concepts of person, health, environment, and nursing within a metaparadigm for understanding care.

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Caritative Care Theory Overview

Katie Eriksson developed the Caritative Care Theory based on her experience as a nursing instructor and professor in Finland. The theory distinguishes between caring ethics, the practical relationship between patient and nurse, and nursing ethics. It views caring and suffering through a lens of preserving human dignity and sees the nurse-patient relationship as core to nursing ethics. The theory also examines concepts of person, health, environment, and nursing within a metaparadigm for understanding care.

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Katie Eriksson

Caritative Care Theory

BACKGROUND OF THE THEORIST

 Finland-Swedish Nurse
 Nursing instructor at Helsinki Swedish Medical Institute
 Currently works as a professor of health sciences at ABO Akademi University
in Vaasa
 Responsible for research & development of the caring sciences department

CARITATIVE THEORY

 A model of nursing which distinguishes between caring ethics, the practical


relationship between the patient & the nurse & nursing ethics
 Nursing ethics are the ethical principles that guide a nurse’s decision-making
abilities
 Caritative caring consists of love & charity which is also known as caritas &
respect & reverence for human holiness & dignity
 Suffering that occurs as a result of lack of caritative care is violation of
human dignity

ASSUMPTIONS

 The human being: the patient & caregiver/ nurse


 Suffering & health
 The caritas motive: the ethics of caring
 Caring: compassion, invitation & commitment to the relationship, faith, hope
& love
 The caring communion

METAPARADIGM
a.) Person
- The patient is the suffering human being or the human being who suffers
& patiently endures

b.) Health
- Three (3) forms of health and each contains suffering:
1. Related to illness
2. Related to care
3. Related to life

c.) Environment
Caring Culture Concept
- Characterizes the total caring reality based on cultural elements
- Transmission of value preferences (ethos)
- Preserving respect dignity & holiness of the human being
d.) Nursing
Caritative Care Ethics
- makes a basic distinction between caring & nursing ethics
- Caring ethics is the core of nursing ethics deals with patient-nurse
relationship
- Nursing ethics deals with ethical principles & rules that guide nursing
decisions

STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES OF CARITATIVE CARE THEORY


Weaknesses Strengths
Abstract Holism
Spiritually based Acknowledge willingness of person,
caregiver, or patient
Lack of international use in nursing Nurse willingness to act without
education prejudice
Nurse willingness to self-sacrifice Altruistic

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