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Int EG ral M o d E l for G r as P I nG nE E ds I n C a r i t a s n u r s i n g
emotional as well as intellectual—and so on. For nursing, this devel-
opment allows us to embrace knowledge and knowing in a variety of
ways—those objectively known and those approaches yet to emerge
from the nonphysical sphere.
For example, with an understanding of the different spheres/
quadrants of knowing, we can accommodate nursing diagnosis/tax-
onomy and concrete physical-technical procedural acts on the one
hand with the spiritual and philosophical, subjective, intentional, sym-
bolic, Caring/Caritas Consciousness, “Presencing,” and Being on the
other hand. As Jarrin (2006) noted in an exposition of a unifying the-
ory of nursing, such nursing has a unifying core for understanding
and translating different foci of nursing within the quadrant context.
Thus, nursing is more able to communicate between and among dif-
ferent foci and through the different and diverse lenses nursing and
nurses bring to the academic and professional practice world. This
shift toward integration of the whole, allowing for different concep-
tualizations, unites rather than separates the many diverse levels and
discourses within the field.
It is within this broader and deeper aspect of tending to basic
needs that we realize that nursing is simultaneously touching upon or
mediating all aspects/quadrants and all energetic chakra system lev-
els, either intentionally or unintentionally. Thus, it is important to be
more intentional, aware, and evolved with respect to where we locate
or “situate” (Jarrin 2006) our caring practices with respect to this
Caritas Process of basic human needs. Chapter 17 explores the seven
chakra systems as another overlay of the quadrant model, consistent
with Caring Science and Caritas Nursing.

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