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J Caring Sci. 2022;11(4): 246-254.
doi: 10.34172/jcs.2022.21
PMID: 36483689
PMCID: PMC9720504
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Review Article

Human Caring: A Concept Analysis

Leila Ghanbari-Afra 1 ORCID logo, Mohsen Adib-Hajbaghery 1* ORCID logo, Mansour Dianati 1 ORCID logo

1 Trauma Nursing Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
*Corresponding Author: Corresponding Author: Mohsen Adib-Hajbaghery, Email: , Email: adib1344@yahoo.com

Abstract

Introduction: Human caring combines science, art, and humanity. Humanity is the heart of care and interpersonal interactions. Despite the critical emphasis on human caring and concern for nursing care without humanity, there is no clear definition for human caring in nursing. This study aimed to analyze the concept of human caring.

Methods: Walker and Avant’s strategy for concept analysis was used. Electronic databases such as PubMed, Scopus, Ovid, Google Scholar, Magiran, Iran Doc, SID, and a number of dictionaries were searched without any limitation in date. Search keywords were “care”, “caring”, “human caring”, “humanization”, “patient care”, “comprehensive care” and “nursing care”. We searched all documents published before September 2020. In the initial search, 1637 articles were found but finally, 39 relevant articles remained in the study.

Results: The nine defining attributes of human caring were establishing therapeutic communication, presence at the patient bedside, empathy, providing scientific care, subjectivity, dynamicity, respecting the patient’s rights and ethics of care, helping the patient achieve a feeling of well-being, and art and creativity. Antecedents of human caring were categorized into three categories namely, human, personal, and organizational factors. The consequences were also categorized into consequences related to nurse, profession, patient, and organization.

Conclusion: A theoretical definition and a conceptual model of human caring were developed. This concept should be included in the nursing curricula at all undergraduate and graduate levels and even in nurses’ in-service training programs.

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Submitted: 10 Nov 2021
Revision: 17 Feb 2022
Accepted: 17 Feb 2022
ePublished: 16 Aug 2022
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