Concepts of caring as construct of Caritas / Caring science as a metaparadigm / The Caritas process of hope as a mid-range theory / Psychometric testing and adaptations of the caring factor survey and other survey tools -- The practice of loving kindness to self and others as perceived by nurses and patients in the cardiac interventional unit (CIU) / Measuring caring in primary nursing / Patient and nurse perception of the individual caring relationship / Profile of a nurse effective in caring / Making the 'quantum leap' : biochemical markers of human caring science / Measurement of caring in a relationship based care model of nursing / Integrating human caring science into a professional nursing practice model / Impact of intentional caring behaviors nurses' perception of caring in the workplace, nurses intent to stay and patients' perceptions of being cared for / Caring at the core, maximizing the likelihood that a caring moment will occur / "Partners in care" : patient and staff responses to a new model of care delivery / The caring moment and participative action research (PAR) for outcomes management / Therapeutic music pilot in the context of human caring theory / CaritasheartmathTM in the emergency department setting the impact of self-care on practitioners / First measurement of Caritas in Italy / Utilization of the clinical caritas process in a selected tertiary hospital in the Philippines / Reflective practice as a process to understand caring behaviors during implementation of relationship based care in a community health service in England / A Chinese cultural perspective of nursing care in Macau, China / Comparison of caritas across three countries as perceived by patients