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Tools That Measure Caring: A Systematic Literature Review Of The Impact Of Caring, Jennifer Drake

Jennifer Drake

Technology and the complexity of the patient care can take the nurse's attention away from caring for the patient to caring for the technology. The purpose of this systematic review was to gather evidence from the literature on tools for measuring caring and the outcomes in order to make that body of knowledge easily accessible to the direct care nurse for implementation. Jean Watson's theory of human caringâ?? the theoretical framework that guided and informed this DNP projectâ??focuses on human caring processes and experiences. It assumes that effective caring promotes health and outcomes of the nurse and patient. By using …