A nurse with qualities such as confidence, professionalism, and courage provide a better encounter. The nurse’s way of being was noted to be the antecedents to a perfect caring encounter. It was meant to provide a depth of information over a lengthy duration of time. The articles were published “in the English language in the years 19” (p.10). Utilizing the Rodgers’ evolutionary view method, the team gathered data from different peer-reviewed sources from databases such as EBSCO, PubMed and Springer Link among others. The article explores the concept and dimensions that enrich such an encounter. Ideally, the nurse gets a patient’s encounter whenever he/she has a caregiving task. Encounter is the harmonious interaction between both parties. In their article, Holopainen, Nystrom, & Kasen, (2019) discuss the caring ‘encounter’ between the patient and the nurse.

With these theories, nurses can understand their role and how to incorporate caring to boost their work. As for the theories, they have been developed to help nurses understand frameworks that guide their profession. Equally important, caring enables nurses to choose the most effective approaches to result in the best outcome. The patients need comfort, support, compassion, and hope that they will be better. Undeniably, caring plays an essential role in nursing. Moreover, caring has been much emphasized as if it is the Holy Grail in nursing. Caring in nursing, however, has been criticized with some stating that these words can be used interchangeably because they have been given a common definition. These include the Caring Assessment Tool, Caring Ability Inventory, Caring Behaviors Inventory, among others. Additionally, different tools have been developed to assess care. These measurements include the outcome, nurse knowledge, healing interaction, and nurse responses. There have also been discussions on how to measure care. The theorists used these concepts to develop their theories. In addition, the 6 Cs for care include confidence, competence, conscience, commitment, confidence and comportment (p.100). For instance, the nurse must know the patient’s needs, what to do to improve patient care and choose actions indented for better outcome among others. Notably, there have been conceptual models used in the development of these theories.

Caring component in nursing