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t h eoret ic al Fra m e w o r k F or C ar it as/c ari n g rel at i on s h i p
Caritas-Communitas-Love and Caring Human-to-Human Connections
become paramount.
Table 8.4 includes the areas of knowledge, skills, and values asso-
ciated with practitioner-to-practitioner caring-healing relationships,
identified by the Pew Fetzer Report (PFR 1994:36).
An understanding of all these dimensions and vicissitudes of rela-
tionship and caring is the basis for creating a more integrated model
of caring-healing, of Caritas to Communitas. The relationship practi-
tioners form with self, patient, community, and other practitioners is
critical and requires balanced attention to transform education and
practice as well as the practitioners themselves, whether students or
skilled clinicians (PFR 1994:37). Subsequent chapters will continue to
unfold knowledge, skills, and values that will deepen and strengthen
relationship-centered caring as a moral, philosophical, and practical
foundation for nursing and health care practices.

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