This column features a report of a research project in a community hospital. Staff members were given opportunities to engage and act on the ideas of Boykin and Schoenhofer in their nursing as caring theory. Feedback from patients, family members, and all staff who touched patients informed the creation of a new model of care that positively transformed the workplace in the hospital setting. Strategies that were implemented to guide the values of nursing as caring theory are described. The result of the project was an environment that nurtures persons in their caring and growing in caring while illuminating the fullness of nursing.
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