Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xv
4. Preface xvii
5. Part I Background 1
6. Part II Caring Science as Context
7. Chapter One Nursing: The Philosophy And Science Of Caring 15
8. Chapter Two Carative Factors/Caritas Processes: Original and Evolved Core for Professional Nursing 29
9. Chapter Three Caritas Processes: Extension of Carative Factors 39
10. Part III From Carative Factors to Caritas Processes
11. Chapter Four From Carative Factor 1: Humanistic-Altruistic System of Values to Caritas Process 1: Cultivating the Practice of Loving-Kindness and Equanimity Toward Self and Other as Foundational to Caritas Consciousness 47
12. Chapter Five From Carative Factor 2: Installation of Faith and Hope to Caritas Process 2: Being Authentically Present: Enabling, Sustaining, and Honoring the Faith, Hope, and Deep Belief System and the Inner-Subjective Life World of Self/Other 61
13. Chapter Six From Carative Factor 3: Cultivation of Sensitivity to Oneself and Others to Caritas Process 3: Cultivation of One’s Own Spiritual Practices and Transpersonal Self, Going Beyond Ego-Self 67
14. Chapter Seven From Carative Factor 4: Developing a Helping-Trusting Relationship to Caritas Process 4: Developing and Sustaining a Helping-Trusting Caring Relationship 71
15. Chapter Eight Theoretical Framework for Caritas/Caring Relationship 77
16. Chapter Nine From Carative Factor 5: Promotion and Acceptance of the Expression of Positive and Negative Feelings to Caritas Process 5: Being Present to, and Supportive of, the Expression of Positive and Negative Feelings 101
17. Chapter Ten From Carative Factor 6: Systematic Use of the Scientific Problem-Solving Method for Decision Making to Caritas Process 6: Creative Use of Self and All Ways of Knowing as Part of the Caring Process; Engage in the Artistry of Caritas Nursing 107
18. Chapter Eleven From Carative Factor 7: Promotion of Interpersonal Teaching and Learning to Caritas Process 7: Engage in Genuine Teaching-Learning Experience That Attends to Unity of Being and Subjective Meaning—Attempting to Stay Within the Other’s Frame of Reference 125
19. Chapter Twelve From Carative Factor 8: Attending to a Supportive, Protective, and/or Corrective Mental, Physical, Societal, and Spiritual Environment to Caritas Process 8: Creating a Healing Environment at All Levels 129
20. Chapter Thirteen From Carative Factor 9: Assistance with Gratification of Human Needs to Caritas Process 9: Administering Sacred Nursing Acts of Caring-Healing by Tending to Basic Human Needs 143
21. Chapter Fourteen Administering Sacred Nursing Acts—Further Development of Carative Factor/Caritas Process 9 149
22. Chapter Fifteen From Carative Factor 10: Allowance for Existential-Phenomenological Forces to Caritas Process 10: Opening and Attending to Spiritual/Mysterious and Existential Unknowns of Life-Death 191
23. Part IV Expanding Knowledge-Building Frameworks for Reconsidering Caritas Nursing: The Energetic Chakra-Quadrant Model
24. Chapter Sixteen Integral Model for Grasping Needs in Caritas Nursing 203
25. Chapter Seventeen The Seven Chakras: An Evolving Unitary View of the Basic Needs Energy System 207
26. Chapter Eighteen The Caritas Nurse/Caritas Nursing and Chakra Systems 223
27. Part V Health, Healing, Humanity, and Heart-Centered Knowing for Caritas Nursing
28. Chapter Nineteen Human Experiences: Health, Healing, and Caritas Nursing 231
29. Part VI Critiquing Nursing Education
30. Chapter Twenty Caritas curriculum and Teaching-Learning 245
31. Epilogue 263
32. Addendum I 267
33. Addendum II 277
34. Addendum III 281
35. Addendum IV 289
36. Addendum V 295
37. Postscript: Prescript 297
38. Bibliography 299
39. Index 307