Caritas processes

Question 1

What is trans pers onal caring

Answer 1

To go beyond one’s own ego when caring for someone

Question 2

What does caritas mean

Answer 2

To cherish, appreciate, and to love

Question 3

process 1

Answer 3

• cultivating the practice of loving-kindness and equanimity toward self and other as foundational to caritas consciousness
• attend to self-care practices

Question 4

process 2

Answer 4

• being authentically present: enabling, sustaining, and honoring the faith, hope, and deep belief system and the inner subjective life world of self/other
• incorporates other’s beliefs, values, and what is meaningful to them

Question 5

process 3

Answer 5

• cultivation of one’s own spiritual practices and transpersonal self, going beyond ego self
• lifelong process of evolving and honoring our own inner needs
• we must recognize and feel our own feelings and help others to do the same

Question 6

process 4

Answer 6

• developing and sustaining a helping-trusting caring relationship
• human presence and authentic listening

Question 7

process 5

Answer 7

• being present to and supportive of the expression of positive and negative feelings
• essential to establish trusting relationships
• listen to both positive and negative feelings

Question 8

process 6

Answer 8

-creative use of self and all ways of knowing as part of the caring process; engage in the artistry of caritas nursing

Question 9

process 7

Answer 9

• engage in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to unity of being and subjective meaning attempting to stay within the other’s frame of reference
• learning is more than receiving information

Question 10

process 8

Answer 10

-creating a healing environment at all levels

Question 11

process 9

Answer 11

• administering sacred nursing acts of caring healing by tending to basic human needs
• mind, body, and spirit are all connected
• food, fluid, elimination, ventilation, activity, sexuality, achievement, affiliation, and self-actualization

Question 12

process 10

Answer 12

• opening and attending to spiritual/mysterious and existential unknowns of life and death
• we do not have all the answers to life and death and we must be open to unknowns