"Caring can be affectively demonstrated and practiced only interpersonally.
Caring consists of carative factors that result in the satisfaction
of certain human needs.
Effective caring promotes health and individual or family growth.
Caring responses except a person not only as he or she is now
but as what he or she may become.
A caring environment is one that offers the development of potential
while allowing the person to choose the best action for himself or herself
at a given point in time
Caring is more 'healthogenic' than is curing. The practice of caring
integrates biophysical knowledge with knowledge of human behavior to
generate or promote health and to provide ministrations to those who are
ill. A science of caring is therefore complementary to the science
of curing.
The practice of caring is central to nursing" (Watson, 1979, pp. 8-9).
