Christian Worldview and Caring in Nursing: The Legacy of Sister Simone Roach.

Sister Simone Roach, a noted philosopher of caring in nursing, left behind a significant body of theoretical and practical work highlighting the areas of nursing ethics, care/caring, and compassion. This article explores the integration of the moral foundation of agape love in Pauline theology and Roach's human caring in nursing (1992) as the action of agape love. A narrative literature review explores the relationship between the scriptural ethics of St.

Robots and Robotics in Nursing.

Technological advancements have led to the use of robots as prospective partners to complement understaffing and deliver effective care to patients. This article discusses relevant concepts on robots from the perspective of nursing theories and robotics in nursing and examines the distinctions between human beings and healthcare robots as partners and robot development examples and challenges. Robotics in nursing is an interdisciplinary discipline that studies methodologies, technologies, and ethics for developing robots that support and collaborate with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers in practice.

Characteristics of interactive communication between Pepper robot, patients with schizophrenia, and healthy persons.

Background: Expressing enjoyment when conversing with healthcare robots is an opportunity to enhance the value of human robots with interactive capabilities. In clinical practice, it is common to find verbal dysfunctions in patients with schizophrenia. Thus, interactive communication characteristics may vary between Pepper robot, persons with schizophrenia, and healthy persons.

Aesthetic expressions as data in researching the lived-world of children with advanced cancer.

Background: Understanding the true world of children needs a special method. Using aesthetic expressions through artworks with reflections assists nurse researchers in exploring children's feelings, thoughts, and behaviors in relation to their health and well-being.

Objective: This article focuses on the use of aesthetic expressions as innovative data sources in a study of the lived worlds of children experiencing advanced cancer.

Intentional Observational Clinical Research Design: Innovative Design for Complex Clinical Research Using Advanced Technology.

The growing use of robots in nursing and healthcare facilities has prompted increasing research on human-robot interactions. However, specific research designs that can guide researchers to conduct rigorous investigations on human-robot interactions are limited. This paper aims to discuss the development and application of a new research design-the Intentional Observational Clinical Research Design (IOCRD).

The experience of older persons with mental health conditions who interact with healthcare robots and nurse intermediaries: The qualitative case studies.

Background: Caring expressions between humans and nonhuman intelligent machines are futuristic prototypes with healthcare robots as major advocates.

Objective: To examine the experience of older persons with mental health conditions, particularly patients with schizophrenia and with dementia in the interaction with healthcare robots and intermediaries in a transactive relational engagement.

Methods: Two qualitative case studies were conducted using sophisticated audio-video technologies to record the conversation and activities that were carefully documented.

Development Issues of Healthcare Robots: Compassionate Communication for Older Adults with Dementia.

Although progress is being made in affective computing, issues remain in enabling the effective expression of compassionate communication by healthcare robots. Identifying, describing and reconciling these concerns are important in order to provide quality contemporary healthcare for older adults with dementia. The purpose of this case study was to explore the development issues of healthcare robots in expressing compassionate communication for older adults with dementia.

"They Have Our Backs": Nurse Leaders and Caring-Based Nursing Theory in the Time of COVID-19.

The Dance of Caring Persons is a relational model based on the theory of Nursing As Caring. Through the lens of a nursing situation involving a family affected by COVID-19, nursing-theory–based nurse leader behavior in 3 circles of caring is explored. Lessons learned from this experience and analysis can be translated into the practice of nursing leadership in any care environment.

Disruptive Engagements With Technologies, Robotics, and Caring: Advancing the Transactive Relationship Theory of Nursing.

Human caring, founded on a Japanese caring perspective and nursing theory, fosters innovative and creative ideas for an aging society. The growing reality of health care dependency on technology presents a temptation to give robots utility as partners in nursing practice. Human caring expressed in human-to-human relationships, and also between humans and nonhumans, is a futuristic model for health care, with humanoid robots as major supporters.

Knowing the occasion of a peaceful death in intensive care units in Thailand.

The purpose of this study was to describe how nurses know the occasion of a peaceful death. The data were generated from individual in-depth interviews with ten nurses who practised in adult intensive care units in the southern region of Thailand. Using a content analysis method, four processes of knowing the occasion of a peaceful death were isolated.

Thai Buddhist intensive care unit nurses' perspective of a peaceful death: an empirical study.

Aim: To describe the concept of a peaceful death from Thai Buddhist intensive care unit (ICU) nurses' perspectives.

Method: A descriptive qualitative study of data generated from individual in-depth interviews of ten intensive care nurses who practiced in adult ICUs in the southern region of Thailand. Content analysis was used to analyse the data.

Transforming practice using a caring-based nursing model.

Today's health care environments are calling for new models of care delivery grounded in essential values. This article describes the results of a 2-year funded research project that intentionally grounded an acute care unit in the perspective of nursing as caring. Outcomes of care for patients, families, staff and the organization are described.

Philosophical underpinnings of an emergent methodology for nursing as caring inquiry.

Two research approaches congruent with the theory of nursing as caring are described: group interpretive phenomenology and nursing as caring research as praxis. The idea of praxis and the theory of communicative action are explored for congruence as philosophical underpinnings of a possible eventual methodology for developing knowledge of nursing as caring.

Choosing personhood: intentionality and the theory of nursing as caring.

Drawing on a story of a nursing situation for practical context, this article explores the meaning of intentionality within the theoretical context of Nursing as Caring. May's definition of intentionality as the structure that gives meaning to experience is interwoven with the concepts of the theory of Nursing as Caring to explore the topic. Mayeroff's concepts of hope and commitment contribute to an understanding of intentionality in relation to Nursing as Caring.