title: Caring theory and practice--entering a simultaneous concept analysis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To better understand the approach of caring in nursing and the role of theory in practice, we wanted to consolidate the caring theory of Watson with the empirical findings from the three studies performed to reveal nurses' caring intentions and their lived experience of reflecting caring theory in practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  Through a simultaneous concept analysis of nine concepts, caring science theory was consolidated with the findings of the three empirical studies to reveal the dynamics of caring theory and caring practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These nine concepts were found to be interrelated with the advanced concept of mediating care, which emphasizes that mediating care calls for an authenticity of being and ability--an ability to be present to self and others in the dynamism of openness and frames of thought.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Division of Health, Activity and Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden. tine@jdb.se
authors.forename: Albertine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ranheim
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kärner
authors.forename: Carina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Berterö
mesh_terms: D057179:Advanced Practice Nursing; D036262:Empirical Research; D006801:Humans; D008606:Mental Processes; D016294:Models, Nursing; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000379:methods*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses' / Q000592:standards*