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CRITICAL THINKING ACTIVITIES
1. Consider Swanson’s Theory of Caring as a frame- 3. Think about an interaction with a client-family
work for your own nursing practice and research. in your clinical practice that you wish you could
How is it applicable? change or improve. Use the processes of the
2. Think about a time when you felt that someone Theory of Caring to critically assess about where
cared about you deeply. Remember what it felt like you might have made more appropriate actions. If
to experience caring. Now reflect on that experi- it were possible to improve this interaction, what
ence and review your experience in the context of would you change and why?
the processes of caring in Swanson’s theory.

POINTS FOR FURTHER STUDY
n Swanson, K. M. (1998). Caring made visible. nursing research (pp. 31–60). Thousand Oaks, (CA):
Creative Nursing, 4(4), 8–11, 16. Sage.
n Swanson, K. M. (1999a). Research-based practice n Swanson, K. M., & Wojnar, D. (2004). Optimal
with women who have had miscarriages. Image: healing environments in nursing. Journal of
The Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 31(4), Alternative and Complementary Medicine,
339–345. 10(1), 43–48.
n Swanson, K. M. (1999b). The effects of caring, n Swanson, K. M., Chen, H. T., Graham, J. C.,
measurement, and time on miscarriage impact Wojnar, D. M., & Petras, A. (2009). Resolution
and women’s well-being in the first year subse- of depression and grief during the first year after
quent to loss. Nursing Research, 48(6), 288–298. miscarriage: A randomized controlled clinical
n Swanson, K. M. (1999c). What’s known about caring trial of couples-focused interventions. Journal
in nursing: A literary meta-analysis. In A. S. Hinshaw, of Women’s Health and Gender-based Medicine,
J. Shaver, & S. Feetham (Eds.), Handbook of clinical 18(8), 1245–1257.

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