Nursing, Caring, and Complexity Science: For Human ... - Axon

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prologue
Caritas Process 1: Cultivating the Practice of Loving Kindness and
Equanimity Toward Self and Others involves listening and respecting others,
honoring human dignity, treating self and others with loving kindness,
recognizing vulnerabilities in self and others, and accepting self and others
as they are.
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 and Others means creating opportunities for
reflection, silence, and pause; promoting intentionality and human connections
with others viewing life as a mystery to be explored rather than a problem
to be solved; and interacting with caring arts and sciences to promote
healing and wholeness.
Caritas Process 3: Cultivation of One’s Own Spiritual Practices and
Transpersonal Self, Going Beyond Ego-Self means practicing self-reflection,
transforming tasks into caring–healing interactions, demonstrating genuine
interest in others, and valuing the goodness of self and others as human beings.
Caritas Process 4: Developing and Sustaining a Helping-Trusting Caring
Relationship includes the concept of a caring moment where the experience
transforms both nurse and patient. This involves the practice of authentic
presence, holding a sacred space for healing in others’ time of need, and
entering into the experience to explore the possibilities in the moment and
in the relationship.
Caritas Process 5: Being Present To and Supporting the Expressions of
Positive and Negative Feelings means creating and holding sacred space
(a safe space for unfolding and emerging); encouraging story telling as a way
to express understanding, allowing the story to emerge, change, and grow;
and encouraging reflections of experiences and feelings.
Caritas Process 6: Creative Use of Self and All Ways of Knowing as Part
of the Caritas Process: Engage in the Art of Caritas Nursing. In practice, a
caritas nurse uses self to create healing environments via intentional touch,
artistic expression, journaling, music, and play; integrates aesthetic, empirical,
ethical, personal, and metaphysical ways of knowing into practice; and
helps others to find new meaning in their journey.
Caritas Process 7: Engage in Genuine Teaching-Learning Experience that
Attends to the Unity of Being and Subjective Meaning Attempting to Stay Within
the Other’s Frame of Reference. In nursing practice, these calls for a focus on
honoring the wholeness of persons, giving information to someone in a way
they can receive it, seeking to learn from others and understand their world
view, and helping others understand how they are thinking about their health.
Caritas Process 8: Creating a Healing Environment at All Levels. A caritas
nurse creates space for: human connections to occur, caring intentions, and a
healing environment by attending to nursing as environment, light, art, water
noise, hand washing, and comfort measures.