Human caring science: a theory of nursing

Introduction : context for theory development

Nursing as human caring science

Human caring in nursing

Nature of human caring and caring values in nursing

Nursing and metaphysics

Nature of human life as subject matter of nursing

Theory components and definitions

Transpersonal caring relationship

Structural overview of Watson's theory of human care

Methodology : reconsidered

Transcendental or depth phenomenology and poetic results

an exemplar.