Home Subscribe Login Contact Us

Quick Links:

Articles About The Journal Editorial Staff Reprint Permission Manuscript Submission Review Guidelines Ethics Statement Publication Contract Subscribe to JHHSA

Latest News:

Call for papers: Emerging Trends in Public & Nonprofit Organizations

ASPA's Academic Women in Public Administration (AWPA) has partnered with JHHSA to initiate a discussion on emerging health and human service trends in public and nonprofit institutions. This symposium seeks scholarship with an eye to creating resilience. Thoughtful empirical and theoretical research that turns a critical eye on what institutions are doing to navigate these challenging times. Please see the attached call for details on how to contribute your scholarship.

More Information

JHHSA Articles

Caring Science and Human Caring Theory: Transforming Personal and Professional Practices of Nursing and Health Care

JEAN WATSON
JHHSA, Vol. 31 No. 4, (2009)

This article explores some of the latest developments of the emergence of Caring Science as the moral, theoretical, and philosophical foundation for nursing, leading to transformative personal/professional practices. Through nurse’s taking responsibility for advancing nursing qua nursing, practitioners, patients, and systems alike are witnessing a revolution in nursing, which is restoring the heart of nursing and health care through theory-guided philosophical practices of heart-centered love and caring as the foundation for healing.

Subscribers: Login to read this article

Guests: Subscribe to JHHSA, or purchase individual article access for $10.
The article is not available for automatic download. We will email the article to you as a PDF file upon receiving your payment, typically within 24 hours.