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Swanson’s Caring Theory and the Student Nurse
When you enter the word caring in google search, over 49,000,000 results show up and even images show up showing a picture of what caring looks like. It’s a fair assumption to make that the world knows about caring and cares about caring. When given a closer look, care can be related to medical and nursing profession. One of nursing’s noble theorist Kristen Swanson, presented her Swanson Caring Theory in 1991 and her a theory will follow nurses forever. Her theory accomplishments are manifested by the use of her work in current nursing situations today.
Kristen Swanson Caring Theory has played a crucial role in how patient care should be handled through the 5 caring processes: (a) Knowing, (b) Being With, (c) Doing For, (d) Enabling/Informing, and (e) Maintaining Belief. The paper will discuss the application of Swanson’s Caring Theory in the nursing profession, provide an overview of the theory, how it effects the student nurse, and an analysis of the impact it has on the nursing profession.

The Theorist
Kristen M. Swanson, RN, PhD, FAAN, is the Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Associate Chief Nursing Officer for Academic Affairs at UNC Hospitals. Dr. Swanson earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Rhode Island, her masters in adult health and illness nursing from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in psycho-social nursing from the University of Colorado. Dr. Swanson focused on Women’s Health (University of North Carolina, 2012).
Dr. Swanson theory was developed from three phenomenological studies in separate perinatal context. The first study, Swanson started with “ A deep interest in unders...

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Swanson, K. M. (1993) Nursing As Informed Caring For The Well-Being Of Others. Journal of Nursing Scholarship 25(4) 352-357. Retrieved from http://nursing.sites.unc.edu/files/2012/11/ccm3_032549.pdf
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