This is a core resource for nursing educators and students at all levels who seek fundamental perspectives on the art and science of caring. The book is organized into nine sections providing an in-depth analysis of the evolution of caring scholarship, systematic reviews of the concept of caring, theoretical perspectives, middle-range and grand theories, seminal research studies, research designs and methods, practice models for the integration of caring within contemporary hospital-based practice environments, caring in communities and for the environment, leadership and administrative issues, and the future of caring science. It is co-published with the Watson Caring Science Institute (WCSI).

pt. I. Caring and the discipline of nursing / Marlaine C. Smith -- pt. II. Analyzing the concept of caring / Zane Robinson Wolf -- Concepts of caring and caring as a concept / Janice M. Morse, Shirley M. Solberg, Wendy L. Neander, Joan L. Bottorff, and Joy L. Johnson -- Caring in nursing: analysis of extant theory / Anne Boykin and Savina Schoenhofer -- Caring and the science of unitary human beings / Marlaine C. Smith -- What is known about caring in nursing science: a literary meta-analysis / Kristen M. Swanson -- Metasynthesis of caring in nursing / Deborah Finfgeld-Connett -- pt. III. Theoretical perspectives on caring / Marlaine C. Smith. Caring, an essential human need: proceedings of three national caring conferences / Madeleine M. Leininger -- Nursing: the philosophy and science of caring / Jean Watson -- Foundations of humanistic nursing / Josephine G. Paterson and Loretta T. Zderad -- Caring: the human mode of being / M. Simone Roach -- New dimensions of human caring theory / Jean Watson -- Caring science in a new key / Katie Eriksson -- Five basic modes of being with another / Sigridur Halldorsdottir -- Empirical development of a middle range theory of caring / Kristen M. Swanson -- Nursing as caring: a model for transforming practice / Anne Boykin and Savina O. Schoenhofer -- The theory of human caring: retrospective and prospective / Jean Watson -- Nursing: the philosophy and science of caring / Jean Watson. pt. IV. Seminal research related to caring / Zane Robinson Wolf. Development of a theoretically adequate description of caring / Delores A. Gaut -- Important nurse caring behaviors perceived by patients with cancer / Patricia J. Larson -- Noncaring and caring in the clinical setting: patients' descriptions / Doris Johnston Riemen -- Oncology nurses' versus cancer patients' perceptions of nurse caring behaviors: a replication study / Deborah K. Mayer -- The theory of bureaucratic caring for nursing practice in the organizational culture / Marilyn A. Ray -- Caring about, caring for: moral obligations and work responsibilities in intensive care nursing / Agneta Cronqvist, Tores Theorell, Tom Burns, and Kim Lützén -- pt. V. Research designs and methods for studying caring / Zane Robinson Wolf. Caring inquiry: the esthetic process in the way of compassion / Marilyn A. Ray -- Dimensions of nurse caring / Zane Robinson Wolf, Eileen Riviello Giardino, Patricia A. Osborne, and Marguerite Stahley Ambrose -- Metasynthesis of qualitative analyses of caring: defining a therapeutic model of nursing / Gwen D. Sherwood -- A standard of care for caring: a Delphi study / Zane Robinson Wolf, Margaret Miller, Dawn Freshwater, Rebecca A. Patronis Jones, and Gwen D. Sherwood -- pt. VI. Caring-based nursing practice models / Marian C. Turkel. The quality-caring model: blending dual paradigms / Joanne R. Duffy and Lois M. Hoskins -- Creating a caring practice environment through self-renewal / Marian C. Turkel and Marilyn A. Ray -- The attending nurse caring model: integrating theory, evidence, and advanced caring-healing therapeutics for transforming professional practice / Jean Watson and Roxie Foster -- pt. VII. Caring, health policy, and the community / Marian C. Turkel -- Watson's philosophy, science, and theory of human caring as a conceptual framework for guiding community health nursing practice / Adeline R. Falk Rafael -- Earth caring / Eleanor A. Schuster -- Caring on the ragged edge: nursing persons who are disenfranchised / Joyce V. Zerwekh -- pt. VIII. Caring leadership and administration / Marian C. Turkel. The effects of care and economics on nursing practice / Jan Nyberg -- Struggling to find a balance: the paradox between caring and economics / Marian C. Turkel -- Exploration of the relationship between caring and cost / Kathleen L. Valentine -- Leading via caring-healing: the fourfold way toward transformative leadership / Jean Watson -- Love and caring: ethics of face and hand, an invitation to return to the heart and soul of nursing and our deep humanity / Jean Watson -- pt. IX. Synthesis and epilogue / Marlaine C. Smith, Marian C. Turkel, and Zane Robinson Wolf.