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Since the publication of my 1979 work, the philosophy and science
of caring has continued to evolve through my various publications,
global interactions, professional activities, relationships, and diverse
speaking engagements. In the past half decade or so, caring theory as
a guide for transforming clinical practice has evolved into advanced
clinical models of caring scholarship and professional practices. This
work is transforming self and systems as nurses reengage and more
fully actualize nursing within a caring-healing, Caring Science con-
text. Thus, in small and grand ways, nursing is being transformed
from the inside out through these changes. Some of these changes
have been initiated by Magnet hospital projects, but others are grass-
roots changes made by staff nurses, nursing managers, visionary nurs-
ing administrators, visionary deans of nursing, and nursing faculty
leaders.

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