title: What caring means to geriatric nurses.
abstract: Caring is the major concept in nursing. The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning of caring for nurses caring for elderly patients. Parse' s phenomenology was addressed in the research design, which included four steps: participant selection, dialogical engagement, extraction-synthesis, and heuristic interpretation. By stratified sampling, 30 nurses who worked in medical-surgical wards in a general teaching hospital were selected as participants. Dialogical engagement was completed through in-depth, tape-recorded interviews on the open question, " What is the meaning of caring for you as a provider of care to the elderly? ". Data were interpreted by process of Parse' s phenomenology, which included extracting the essence, synthesizing the essence, formulating a proposition, extracting concepts, and structuring the meaning. The meaning of caring for nurses engaged in caring for the elderly was: " Through the initiative deliberation from sincerity, the nurse is to dedication by the empathy and tolerance". The core concepts of caring were: deliberation, initiative, sincerity, tolerance, empathy, and dedication. It should develop and apply the caring concept and theory actively to geriatric nursing care.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institute of Nursing, Taipei Medical University. chuan@tmu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Liu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shwu-Jiuan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000533:Altruism; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004645:Empathy; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan