Keywords
nursing care
caregivers
patients
phenomenology
holism
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Abstract
Although care is not a new topic, the discussion about it remains relevant, as severalaspects are still vague. This text aims primarily to expose some of the ideas of theauthor of this manuscript about care in general and how to visualize it in the contextof nursing. It is presented a theoretical discussion of caring / care and its philosoficalinterpretation based on phenomenology and holism, seeking to contribute to a betterunderstanding of this phenomenon and to a more humanistic practice of nursing.The philosophical analysis favors a conception under which the author understandscaring as an element of the language of nursing; it is a way of being and only happensin the presence of other beings. Supported by other authors, she concluded thatcaring is the essence of nursing and is characterized by its existential, relational andcontextual dimensions.The journal Investigación en Enfermería: Imagen y Desarrollo is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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