Eriksson's Caritative Caring Theory

Summary

This session delves into Erikson's Caritative Caring Theory, a cornerstone of caring science in Nordic countries. Erikson, a Finnish nursing pioneer, developed the theory focusing on love and charity in health and suffering. Key concepts include Caritas, caring communion, and ethics, aiming to alleviate suffering through dignified care. The theory has influenced nursing practice, education, and leadership, emphasizing the importance of human dignity and holistic care.

Takeaways

• 📚 Erikson's Caritative Caring Theory focuses on the humanistic approach to caring for individuals in health and suffering.
• ❤️ Caritative caring is rooted in love and charity, aiming to alleviate suffering through a spirit of Caritas.
• 👩‍⚕️ Katie Erikson, born in 1943, is a pioneer of caring science in the Nordic countries and established the department of Caring Science at Åbo Akademi University.
• 🌟 Caring science is an academic discipline that combines abstract theory with clinical reality and teaching.
• 🤝 Caritas is the fundamental concept of caring science, representing unconditional love and charity.
• 🔗 Caring communion is an intimate connection that requires presence, intensity, and respect for deep caring relationships.
• 🙌 The act of caring involves elements of faith, hope, love, tending, playing, and learning, aiming for deep communion.
• 🏥 Caritative caring ethics distinguishes between caring ethics and nursing ethics, focusing on the ethical approach towards patients.
• 🌈 Dignity is a core concept in caritative caring ethics, encompassing both absolute and relative aspects of human dignity.
• 👋 The concept of invitation in caring welcomes patients to a genuine caring communion, offering rest and hospitality.
• 🌱 Reconciliation through suffering is a process of change that acknowledges the human being's struggle and creates wholeness.

Q & A

What is caritative caring according to Erikson?

Caritative caring, as described by Erikson, means that we take care and use characters when caring for the human being in health and suffering. It is a manifestation of love that just exists caring communion, and true caring occurs when the one carrying, in a spirit of Caritas, alleviates the suffering of the patient.

Who is Katie Erikson and what is her contribution to caring science?

Katie Erikson is one of the pioneers of caring science in the Nordic countries. She was born in 1943 in Jakobstad, Finland, and graduated from the Helsinski Swedish School of Nursing. She further developed the caritative theory of caring and established the department of caring science at Åbo Akademi University in 1987. Her work is recognized for her character-based theory and her holistic caring science thinking.

What are the major concepts under Erikson's theory of caritative caring?

The major concepts under Erikson's theory include Caritas, caring communion, the act of caring, caritative caring ethics, dignity, invitation, suffering, suffering related to illness, suffering of the human being, reconciliation, and caring culture.

What is Caritas and why is it important in caring science?

Caritas means love and charity, and it is the fundamental matter of caring science. It is an unconditional love that encourages us, and it is the motive for all caring. It means that caring is an endeavor to mediate faith, hope, and love through attending, playing, and learning.

How does caring communion differ from other forms of connection?

Caring communion is a form of intimate connection that characterizes caring. It requires meeting in time and space, an absolute lasting presence, and is characterized by intensity, vitality, and warm closeness. It cannot be taken for granted and requires conscious effort to be with the other.

What is the significance of the act of caring in Erikson's theory?

The act of caring contains the caring elements of faith, hope, love, tending, playing, and learning. It involves the categories of infinity and eternity and invites deep communion. The act of caring is the art of making something very special out of something less special.

How does Erikson define suffering in the context of caritative caring?

Suffering, in Erikson's theory, is an ontological concept described as a human being's struggle between good and evil in a state of becoming. It implies, in some sense, dying away from something and through reconciliation, the wholeness of body, soul, and spirit is created.

What is the role of dignity in caritative caring ethics?

Dignity constitutes one of the basic concepts of caritative caring ethics. Human dignity is partly absolute and partly relative. Absolute dignity is granted through creation, while relative dignity is influenced and formed through culture and external context.

How does Erikson's theory apply to nursing practice?

Erikson's theory has been influential in nursing practice, leadership, and administration. Her nursing care process model has been systematically used, tested, and developed as a basis for nursing care and documentation. Her ideas have been integrated into nursing education and form the core of the development of substance in education and research.

What is the concept of reconciliation in Erikson's theory?

Reconciliation in Erikson's theory refers to the drama of suffering and implies a change through which a new wholeness of the human being is formed after suffering. It involves living with imperfections and seeing a way forward in the meaning of one's good suffering.

How does caring culture play a role in Erikson's caritative caring theory?

Caring culture, as used by Erikson, characterizes the total caring reality and is based on cultural elements such as traditions, rituals, and basic values. It transmits an inner order of value preferences or ethos and is important for the development of a caring environment.

Outlines

00:00

🌱 Introduction to Erikson's Caritative Caring Theory

This segment introduces Katie Erikson's caritative caring theory, which emphasizes the importance of love and charity in healthcare. Erikson, a Finnish nurse and a pioneer in caring science, developed this theory that focuses on alleviating suffering and serving life and health. The theory is rooted in clinical reality and is characterized by concepts such as Caritas, caring communion, and ethics. The ultimate goal of caring, as described by Erikson, is to alleviate suffering through a caring relationship that is unconditional and based on love.

05:01

🌟 Core Concepts of Caritative Caring

This section delves into the core concepts of Erikson's theory, including Caritas, which represents unconditional love and charity, and caring communion, which is an intimate connection requiring presence and effort. The act of caring involves elements of faith, hope, love, tending, playing, and learning. Caritative carrying ethics is distinguished from nursing ethics, focusing on the ethical approach towards patients. Dignity, both absolute and relative, is a fundamental concept, with absolute dignity being inherent and relative dignity being shaped by culture. The theory also addresses suffering, which is seen as a struggle between good and evil, and reconciliation, which involves creating wholeness through sacrifice and acceptance of imperfection.

10:02

🛠 Application and Meta Paradigm of Caritative Caring

The third paragraph discusses the application of Erikson's theory in nursing practice and its meta paradigm. It highlights the importance of the caring relationship between a nurse and a patient, which is based on an open invitation and affirmation. The theory distinguishes between caring nursing and nursing care, with the former being a prejudice-free approach that focuses on the patient's suffering and desires. The concept of the human being in Erikson's theory is based on the entity of body, soul, and spirit, with health being viewed as a movement toward wholeness and holiness. The ethics of caring science are rooted in love, charity, and respect for human dignity, with ethos being the foundation of all caring actions.

15:02

📚 Integration and Impact of Caritative Caring Theory

The final paragraph outlines the integration of Erikson's caritative theory into nursing education and practice. Since the 1970s, her theory has been influential in nursing leadership and administration, and it has been the basis for the practice in caring philosophy in Nordic countries. The theory has been verified and applied in various contexts, from acute clinical care to health promotion and prevention. It has also been integrated into nursing education, influencing the development of substance in education and research. The paragraph concludes with references and a thank you note to the audience for their attention.

Keywords

💡Caritative Caring

Caritative caring refers to a form of care that is characterized by love and charity, aiming to alleviate the suffering of patients. It is the central theme of the video, as it is the core of Katie Erikson's theory of caring. The video explains that caritative caring is not just about performing tasks but is a manifestation of love that exists in caring communion. It is exemplified in the way a caregiver approaches a patient with a spirit of Caritas, aiming to alleviate their suffering.

💡Katie Erikson

Katie Erikson is a pioneer in the field of caring science, particularly in the Nordic countries. Born in Finland, she contributed significantly to the development of caring theories and established the department of caring science at Alba Academy University. The video emphasizes her role in further developing the theory of caritative caring and her influence on the academic discipline of caring science.

💡Caring Communion

Caring communion is described as an intimate connection that is essential in the caring process. It requires a meeting in time and space, an absolute lasting presence, and is characterized by intensity, vitality, and warm closeness. The video highlights that caring communion is not something that can be taken for granted; it requires conscious effort to be with the other, and it is seen as the source of strength and meaning in caring.

💡Caritas

Caritas is a fundamental concept in caring science, representing unconditional love that combines elements of Eros and Agape. It is the motive for all caring and is described as an endeavor to mediate faith, hope, and love through attending, playing, and learning. The video uses Caritas to illustrate the intrinsic motivation behind caritative caring.

💡Ethics in Caring

Ethics in caring is a core concept in Erikson's theory, which distinguishes between caring ethics and nursing ethics. Caring ethics deals with the fundamental relationship between the patient and the nurse, focusing on how the nurse meets the patient in an ethical sense. The video explains that caring ethics is the core of nursing ethics and is essential for the practice of caritative caring.

💡Dignity

Dignity is a basic concept in caritative caring ethics, which is divided into absolute and relative dignity. Absolute dignity is inherent to human beings through creation, while relative dignity is influenced by culture and external context. The video emphasizes the importance of recognizing and respecting a patient's dignity as a fundamental aspect of caritative caring.

💡Invitation

Invitation, in the context of the video, refers to the act of welcoming the patient into the caring communion. It is a concept that allows for a space where the human being can rest and where their appeal for charity is met with a response. The video uses the concept of invitation to illustrate the importance of creating an environment of genuine hospitality in caring.

💡Suffering

Suffering is described as an ontological concept in the video, representing a human being's struggle between good and evil in a state of becoming. It is not synonymous with pain and is seen as a unique, isolated total experience. The video discusses suffering in relation to illness, care, and life, emphasizing that suffering related to care is a violation of the patient's dignity.

💡Reconciliation

Reconciliation is presented as a process through which a new wholeness of body, soul, and spirit is created when a human being's holiness and dignity appear. It involves living with imperfections and seeing a way forward in the meaning of one's good suffering. The video explains that reconciliation is a prerequisite of caritative caring and is essential for the healing process.

💡Caring Culture

Caring culture is the concept that Erikson uses instead of 'environment' to describe the total caring reality. It is based on cultural elements such as traditions, rituals, and basic values and transmits an inner order of value preferences or ethos. The video discusses how caring culture influences the practice of caritative caring and the ethos of caring environments.

Highlights

Erikson's caritative caring theory is discussed, which emphasizes caring for the human being in health and suffering.

Caritative caring is a manifestation of love that exists in caring communion.

True caring occurs when the caregiver alleviates the patient's suffering in a spirit of Caritas.

Katie Erikson, born in 1943, is a pioneer of caring science in the Nordic countries.

Erikson developed the caritative theory of caring and established the department of caring science at Alba Academy University in 1987.

Caring science is an academic discipline rooted in clinical reality and teaching.

The ultimate goal of caring is to alleviate suffering and serve life and health.

Caritas, meaning love and charity, is the fundamental matter of caring science and the motive for all caring.

Caring communion is an intimate connection that requires meeting in time and space.

The act of caring involves elements of faith, hope, love, tending, playing, and learning.

Caritative carrying ethics is distinct from nursing ethics and deals with the basic relation between the patient and the nurse.

Dignity is a basic concept of caritative carrying ethics, with absolute and relative aspects.

Invitation in caring is the act of welcoming the patient to the caring communion.

Suffering is an ontological concept describing the human being's struggle between good and evil.

Reconciliation through suffering implies a change that creates wholeness of body, soul, and spirit.

Caring culture is based on cultural elements like traditions, rituals, and basic values.

Erikson's theory emphasizes the importance of love, mercy, human kindness, and compassion in caring relationships.

Health in Erikson's theory is conceived as a becoming, a movement toward deeper wholeness and holiness.

Erikson's caritative theory has been influential in nursing leadership and administration.

The caritative theory of caring has been integrated into nursing education in the Nordic countries.

Erikson's ideas form the core of the development of substance in education and research in caring science.

Transcripts

good morning everyone for today's

session we are going to be discussing

Erikson's caritative caring Theory

here are the contents of our report

according to Erickson caritative caring

means that we take characters and to use

when caring for the human being in

health and suffering

carotative caring is a manifestation of

love that just exists caring communion

true caring occurs when the one carrying

in a spirit of Caritas alleviates the

suffering of the patient

so who is Erickson

Katie Erickson is one of the pioneers of

caring science in the Nordic countries

Erickson was born in the 18th of

November in 1943 in yakubstad Finland

and belonged to the Finland Swedish

minority she is a 1965 graduate of the

helsinski Swedish School of Nursing and

she completed her Public Health nursing

specialty education in 1967 at the same

institution she later became a nursing

instructor at the helsinski Swedish

Medical Institute and established the

department of caring science in Alba

Academy University in 1987.

Erickson was known to further develop

the caricating theory of caring and

caring science is an academic discipline

she was recognized for her characters

based Theory and her whole caring

science thinking that developed over the

course of 30 years the defining

characteristic of her thinking is that

while she is working at an abstract

level developing Concepts in theory the

theory is rooted in clinical reality and

teaching the ultimate goal of caring is

to allevate suffering and serve life and

health

for the content of the theory under the

major Concepts characters carrying

communion the act of caring carrotative

caring ethics dignity invitation

suffering suffering related to illness

to care and to life the suffering of

human being reconciliation and caring

culture

first is Caritas it means love and

charity in Caritas Iris and Agape are

united and encourage us it is by nature

an unconditional love

Caritas which is the fundamental matter

of caring science also constitutes the

motive for all caring it means that

carrying is an Endeavor to immediate

faith hope love through attending

playing and learning

next is caring communion it is a form of

intimate connection that characterizes

caring it requires meeting in time and

space an absolute lasting presence it is

also characterized by intensity vitality

and by warm closeness rest respect

honesty and tolerance it cannot be taken

for granted but presupposes conscious

effort to be with the other current

communion is seen as the source of

strength and meaning in caring

next is the act of caring the act of

carrying contains the carrying elements

of faith hope love tending playing and

learning it involves the categories of

infinity and Eternity and invites deep

communion the act of carrying is the art

of making something very special out of

something less special

for caritative carrying ethics it

comprises the ethics of caring the core

of which determined by the characters

matter Erickson makes a distinction

between caring ethics and nursing ethics

she also defines the foundations of

Ethics in care and its essential

substance

carrying ethics deals with a basic

relation between the patient and the

nurse the way in which the nurse meets

the patient in an ethical sense

it is about the approach we have towards

the patient caring ethics is the core of

nursing ethics

next on the list is dignity dignity

constitutes to one of the basic concepts

of caritative carrying ethics human

dignity is partly Absolut dignity partly

relative dignity absolute dignity is

granted the human being through creation

while relative dignity is influenced and

formed through culture and external

context a human being's absolute dignity

involves the right to be confirmed is a

unique human being

for invitation it refers to the ACT that

occurs in the career welcomes the

patient to the caring communion the

concept of invitation finds room for a

place where the human being is allowed

to rest a place that Grieves genuine

hospitality and where the patient's

appeal for charity meets with a response

for suffering it is an ontological

concept described as a human being's

struggle between good and evil in a

state of becoming

suffering implies in some sense dying

away from something and through

reconciliation the wholeness of Body

Soul and Spirit is there created

when the human beings Holiness and

dignity appear suffering is a unique

isolated total experience and is not

synonymous with pain

next a suffering related to illness to

care and to life

suffering related to illness is is

experienced in connection with illness

and treatment

when the patient is exposed to suffering

caused by care or absence of caring the

patient experiences suffering related to

care which is always a violation of the

patient's dignity not to be taken

seriously not to be welcomed being

blamed and being subjected to the

exercise of Power are various forms of

suffering related to care

in the situation of being a patient the

entire life of a human being may be

experienced as a suffering related to

life

next is suffering of human being the

suffering human being is the concept

that Erickson uses to describe the

patient the patient refers to the

concept of passions in Latin which means

suffering

the patient is a suffering human being

or a human being suffers patiently

endures

next is their consolation it refers to

the drama of suffering reconciliation

implies a change through which a new

illness is formed of the life of the

human being has lost in suffering

in reconciliation the importance of

sacrifice emerges having achieved

reconciliation implies living with an

imperfection with regard to oneself and

others but seeing a way forward in the

meaning in one's good suffering

reconciliation is a prerequisite of

characters

next or lastly is the caring culture

caring culture is the concept that

Erickson uses instead of environment it

characterizes the total caring reality

and is based on cultural elements such

as Traditions rituals and basic values

it transmits an inner order of value

preferences or ethos and the different

constructions of culture have their

basis and the changes of value that

ethos undergoes

important principles in the caritative

caring Theory the substance and core of

caring are described as to care is to

tend Play and Learn and faith hope and

love the starting point is love Mercy

human kindness compassion and a caring

relationship Ericsson seeks answers to

the what of suffering through concept

analysis but she also discusses the why

question each suffering is unique there

is a connection between suffering and

desire where suffering gives birth to an

unsuspected life power that is not seen

as having any other source in suffering

itself

proceeding to The Meta Paradigm of the

theory

Erickson emphasizes a territative caring

relates to the animal's core of nursing

as described by Erickson the core of the

caring relationship between a nurse and

a patient is an open invocation that

contains affirmation that the other is

always welcome in the caring act the

patient is invited to a genuine sharing

in order to make the caring fundamentals

alive and active Ericsson constitutes

the Curtis motive as the core of all

teaching and fostering growth in all

forms of human relations according to

Ericsson the caritative Outlook refers

to the visibility of the characters

motive in a special ethical attitude in

caring which he formulates and specifies

in the caritative carrying ethics

Erickson brings south of caring Through

the Ages can be seen as various

expressions of love and charity through

the view towards elevating suffering and

serving life and health

she distinguishes between caring nursing

and nursing care according to Ericsson

nursing care is based on the nursing

care process and it represents good care

only when it is based on the innermost

core of caring

caring nursing represents a kind of

caring without a Prejudice that

emphasizes the patient and his or her

sufferings and desires person the

conception of the human being in

Ericsson's theory is based and action

that the Yemen being is an entity of

Body Soul and Spirit a human being is

fundamentally holy and this action is

related to the idea of Yemen dignity

which means accepting the human

obligation of serving with love and

existing for the sake of others the

human being is viewed as a constantly

evolving he is constantly changing the

Dual tendency of the human being also

emerges in his effort to be unique while

he simultaneously lost for belonging in

a larger community

the human being is fundamentally

dependent on communion where he can give

and receive love experience Faith and

Hope and be aware that this existence

here and now has meaning

the human being we meet in care is

creative and imaginative has desires and

wishes and is able to experience

phenomena as a result a human being is

insufficient in terms of its needs when

the human being enters the caring of

contacts he becomes a patient in the

original sense of the concept is

suffering human being

Ericsson defines Health as soundness

freshness and well-being the subjective

dimension of well-being is emphasized

strongly in the ontological conception

health is conceived as a becoming a

movement toward a deeper wholeness and

Holiness as a human being's Inner Health

potential is touched a movement occurs

that becomes visible in the different

dimensions of Health as doing being and

becoming with the wholeness that is

unique to human beings in doing so the

person's thought concerning Health are

focused on healthy life habits and

avoiding illness and being the person's

strives for balance in Harmony in

becoming the human being becomes whole

on deeper level of integration

environment in Ericsson sense the ethics

of carrying science as well as that of

caring consists of the idea of love and

charity and respect and honor of the

holiness and dignity of human beings

ethos is the sounding board of all

caring Athens is ontology in which there

is an inner art to and a target of

caring that has its own language and its

own key good caring and true knowledge

become visible through ethics ethos

originally refers to home or to the

place where human in feels at home it

symbolize the human being's in their

most space where he appears in his

nakedness

models for the conceptual model this

model of nursing distinguishes between

caring ethics the Practical relationship

between the patients and the nurse and

nursing ethics nursing ethics are the

ethical principles that guide a nurse's

decision-making abilities

carrots active carrying consists of love

and charity which is also known as

Caritas and respect and reverence for

human Holiness and dignity

according to the theory suffering that

occurs is a result of lack of caritative

care is a violation of human dignity

the key ideas of Ericsson's Fury of

carotative caring are linked to the

metaphoradem consists of human being

health and suffering caring an

environment

all of these are permitted with the

efforts of caritative carrying that is

the character's thought of human love

and mercy and the honoring of the

absolute Dignity of human beings

for the theoretical model Erikson's

leading thoughts have been not only to

develop the substance of caring but also

to develop pairing science as an

independent discipline

she wanted to go back to the Greek

classics by Plato secrets and Aristotle

from whom she found her inspiration for

the development of both the substance

and the discipline of caring science

from her basic idea of science as a

humanistic science she developed a meta

theory that she refers as the theory of

science for caring science

proceeding to the application of the

theory

first is the nursing practice

it's the 1970s Erickson's nursing care

process model was systematically used

tested and developed as a basis of

nursing care and documentation at the

helsinski University Central Hospital

Ericsson's thinking has been influential

in nursing leadership and nursing

Administration with the caritative

theory of nursing form support of the

development of nursing leadership at

various levels of the nursing

organization because Ericsson's thinking

and process bottle of the carrier

General the nursing care process model

has approved to be applicable in all

contexts of caring from acute clinical

caring in psychiatric care to health

promoting and preventing care Erickson's

ideas and her caritative theory of

caring has been verified by everything

which is why several nursing units in

the Nordic countries have based their

practice in caring philosophy of a birth

Theory

under the nursing education

since 1970s Ericsson's theory has been

integrated into the education of nurses

at various levels and her books have

been included continuously and

examination requirements in various

forms of Nursing education in the Nordic

countries

the education for Masters and doctoral

degrees that started in 1986 at the

department of caring science Abu Academy

university has been based entirely on

Ericsson's ideas and her charitative

caring Theory forms the core of the

development of substance in Education

and Research

for the references

the following are the references of this

reporting

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