New Dimensions of Human Caring Theory

Abstract

This paper highlights the changing nature of nursing. Shifting direc tions toward a new consciousness of human caring and healing guide and direct nursing's future and offer a hopeful paradigm for the future of health care. What is emerging is a moral ideal of human caring that raises new questions and reverses the traditional medical treatment model. A caring ethic is introduced in relation to transpersonal caring theory that allows for new epistemologies and ontologies of being, such as evolution of consciousness and transcendence.