A nurse attends a seminar on nursing theories for caring. Which information from the nurse indicates a correct understanding of these theories?

A) Benner identifies caring as highly connected involving patient and nurse.
B) Swanson develops four caring processes to convey caring in nursing.
C) Watson's transcultural caring views inclusion of culture as caring.
D) Leininger's theory places care before cure and is transformative.

Nursing Theories

A set of concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions or propositions derived from nursing models or from other disciplines and project a purposive, systematic view of phenomena by designing specific inter-relationships among concepts for the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and prescribing.

Benner

Refers to Patricia Benner, a nursing theorist who introduced the Novice to Expert model, outlining the stages of nursing competence.

Transcultural Caring

Nursing practice that considers patients' cultural backgrounds in providing compassionate and effective care.