​The Circle of Caring

The Circle of Caring

The Circle of Caring is an integrated holistic model of caregiving that incorporates both the discrete strengths of nursing and medicine. This is an important concern for many advance practice nursing students who may struggle with integrating their nursing expertise and philosophy with the new knowledge and skills that were traditionally viewed as medicine.

The future of advance practice nursing depends on the extent to which practice meets the needs and priorities of society, health care systems, and public policy arena.

After completing this unit, you should be able to:

• Identify health promotion and health maintenance strategies that can be implemented in your clinical practice using the Circle of Caring Model.
• Have an understanding of holistic nursing defined by nursing philosophy and theory, the day-to-day biomedical practice, and how this differs from the Circle of Caring Model.
• Integrate culturally sensitive strategies in caring for individuals across the lifespan.