| Preface: Opening-Entering: A New Beginning Almost Thirty Years Later | |
| Interlude | |
| Background | p. 1 |
| Caring Science as Context | p. 13 |
| Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring | p. 15 |
| Carative Factors/Caritas Processes: Original and Evolved Core for Professional Nursing | p. 29 |
| Caritas Processes: Extension of Carative Factors | p. 39 |
| From Carative Factors to Caritas Processes | p. 45 |
| From Carative Factor 1: Humanistic-Altruistic System of Values to Caritas Process 1: Cultivating the Practice of Loving-Kindness and Equanimity Toward Self and Other as Foundational to Caritas Consciousness | p. 47 |
| From Carative Factor 2: Installation of Faith and Hope to Caritas Process 2: Being Authentically Present: Enabling, Sustaining, and Honoring the Faith, Hope, and Deep Belief System and the Inner-Subjective Life World of Self/Other | p. 61 |
| From Carative Factor 3: Cultivation of Sensitivity to Oneself and Others to Caritas Process 3: Cultivation of One's Own Spiritual Practices and Transpersonal Self, Going Beyond Ego-Self | p. 67 |
| From Carative Factor 4: Developing a Helping-Trusting Relationship to Caritas Process 4: Developing and Sustaining a Helping-Trusting Caring Relationship | p. 71 |
| Theoretical Framework for Caritas/Caring Relationship | p. 77 |
| From Carative Factor 5: Promotion and Acceptance of the Expression of Positive and Negative Feelings to Caritas Process 5: Being Present to, and Supportive of, the Expression of Positive and Negative Feelings | p. 101 |
| From Carative Factor 6: Systematic Use of the Scientific Problem-Solving Method for Decision Making to Caritas Process 6: Creative Use of Self and All Ways of Knowing as Part of the Caring Process; Engage in the Artistry of Caritas Nursing | p. 107 |
| From Carative Factor 7: Promotion of Interpersonal Teaching and Learning to Caritas Process 7: Engage in Genuine Teaching-Learning Experience That Attends to Unity of Being and Subjective Meaning - Attempting to Stay Within the Other's Frame of Reference | p. 125 |
| From Carative Factor 8: Attending to a Supportive, Protective, and/or Corrective Mental, Physical, Societal, and Spiritual Environment to Caritas Process 8: Creating a Healing Environment at All Levels | p. 129 |
| From Carative Factor 9: Assistance with Gratification of Human Needs to Caritas Process 9: Administering Sacred Nursing Acts of Caring-Healing by Tending to Basic Human Needs | p. 143 |
| Administering Sacred Nursing Acts - Further Development of Carative Factor/ Caritas Process 9 | p. 149 |
| From Carative Factor 10: Allowance for Existential-Phenomenological Forces to Caritas Process 10: Opening and Attending to Spiritual/Mysterious and Existential Unknowns of Life-Death | p. 191 |
| Expanding Knowledge-Building Frameworks for Reconsidering Caritas Nursing: The Energetic Chakra-Quadrant Model | p. 201 |
| Integral Model for Grasping Needs in Caritas Nursing | p. 203 |
| The Seven Chakras: An Evolving Unitary View of the Basic Needs Energy System | p. 207 |
| The Caritas Nurse/Caritas Nursing and the Chakra Systems | p. 223 |
| Health, Healing, Humanity, and Heart- Centered Knowing for Caritas Nursing | p. 227 |
| Human Experiences: Health, Healing, and Caritas Nursing | p. 231 |
| Critiquing Nursing Education | p. 243 |
| Caritas Curriculum and Teaching-Learning | p. 245 |
| Addenda | p. 265 |
| Examples of Inter/National Sites Advancing Caring Science | p. 267 |
| Charter: International Caritas Consortium (ICC) | p. 277 |
| Draft of Working Document on "Caritas Literacy" ICC Project | p. 281 |
| International Caring Data Research ICC Projects | p. 289 |
| The Watson Caring Science Institute | p. 295 |
| Postscript: Prescript | p. 297 |
| Bibliography | p. 299 |
| Index | p. 307 |
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