Revisiting caring science: some integrative ideas for the 'head, hand and heart' of critical care nursing practice

Nursing in Critical Care
Kathleen T Galvin

Abstract

This paper introduces the notion of 'Caring science' as a way to delineate and develop particular kinds of knowledge relevant to caring practices in critical care. Firstly, one particular development of person centred care, lifeworld led care is offered. Its relevance for critical care nursing is analysed by pointing to examples of studies which describe temporality, spatiality, intersubjectivity and embodiment and how they may manifest with reference to the person as 'body object/body subject' and the matter of technology in critical care environments. Secondly, by use of an imagined practice scenario, the challenge of expanding our traditional notions of evidence to encompass ways of knowing that are more intimately embodied and practice related is discussed. Such knowledge, referred to as 'embodied relational understanding' is particularly relevant to a conception of caring for persons' in a holistic way. The paper concludes by pointing to the potential for caring science, grounded in lifeworld led care, to offer some integrating ideas that legitimate the full range of resources, 'head', 'hand' and 'heart', that nurses can draw upon in everyday holistic critical care practice.

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