The health sciences would not be complete without a caring science. Although
all health sciences focus to some degree on caring, when the public thinks
about caring, nursing often is foremost in their minds. This book focuses on
instruments for assessing caring in the nursing literature but is useful to all in
the health sciences or healing professions. This second edition not only brings
to the forefront the various conceptualizations of caring but also identifies approaches
to the measurement of the concepts that have been derived from multiple
perspectives on caring.