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Anne Boykin Savina O. Schoenhofer

The Theory of Nursing as Caring:

A Model for Transforming Practice

Marguerite J. Purnell

“The nature of relationships is transformed through caring”
(Boykin & Schoenhofer, 2001a, p. 4).

Credentials and Background Dr. Boykin is currently the Director of the college’s
of the Theorists new Anne Boykin Institute for the Advancement
of Caring in Nursing. Boykin has a longstanding
Anne Boykin commitment to the advancement of knowledge in
Anne Boykin grew up in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, the the discipline, especially regarding the phenomenon
eldest of six children. She began her career in nurs- of caring. Positions she has held in the International
ing in 1966, graduating from Alverno College in Association for Human Caring include president elect
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received her master’s (1990 to 1993), president (1993 to 1996), and member
degree from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, of the nominating committee (1997 to 1999). As im-
and her doctorate degree from Vanderbilt University mediate past president, she served as coeditor of the
in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Boykin is married to journal, International Association for Human Caring,
Steve Staudenmeyer, and they have four children. from 1996 to 1999.
Anne Boykin retired in fall 2011 and is Professor Boykin’s scholarly work is centered on caring as
Emeritus of the Christine E. Lynn College of Nurs- the grounding for nursing. This is evidenced in her
ing at Florida Atlantic University. She has relocated book (coauthored with Schoenhofer), Nursing as Car-
to Asheville, North Carolina, where she enjoys being ing: A Model for Transforming Practice(1993, 2001a),
surrounded by mountains and lakes. and her book, Living a Caring-Based Program (1994b).

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