LESSON 8: REVIEW/ PREVIEW (10 minutes)

Let us begin this session by summarizing what was least clear during the previous topic. As a preview of
the topic, you will answer your own view of the word “suffering” as a student nurse.

Suffering can be physical, emotional and mental meaning anything or everything that causes pain is
suffering.

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING (30 minutes) SCORE: 20/20

You will answer and rationalize this by pair. This will be recorded as your quiz. One (1) point
will be given to correct answer and another one (1) point for the correct ratio. Superimpositions
or erasures in you answer/ratio is not allowed. You are given 30 minutes for this activity:

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following is the work of Katie Eriksson?

A. Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring

B. Theory of Bureaucratic Caring
C. Theory of Caritative Caring
D. Philosophy of Caring

ANSWER: C
RATIO: Katie Erikson’s work is the ”Theory of Caricative Caring”.

2. The act of _____ is the art of making something very special out of something
less special.
A. cure
B. care
C. caritative
D. creativity

ANSWER: B
RATIO: The act of caring is the art of making something very special out of
something less special.

3. She was inspired to develop both the substance and the discipline of caring science from the Greek
classics: A. Socrates
B. Aristotle
C. Plato
D. None of the above
E. All of the above

ANSWER: E
RATIO: She wanted to go back to the Greek classics by Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle, from whom she
found her inspiration for the development of both the substance and the discipline of caring science.
4.The act of caring contains the caring elements which includes all of the following, EXCEPT:
A. Faith, hope and love
B. Tending ,playing and learning
C. Faith, hope and learning
D. None of the above

ANSWER: D
RATIO: The act of caring contains the caring elements (faith, hope, love, tending, playing, and learning),
involves the categories of infinity and eternity, and invites to deep communion.

5. Defined as soundness, freshness, and well-being. Implies being whole in body, soul, and spirit.
A. Caring Ethics
B. Nursing Ethics
C. None of the above
D. Both A and B

ANSWER: C
RATIO: Eriksson considers health in many of her earlier writings in accordance with an analysis of the
concept in which she defines health as soundness, freshness, and well-being. The subjective dimension,
or well-being, is emphasized strongly (Eriksson, 1976).

6. It deals with the basic relation between the patient and the nurse, the way in which the nurse meets
the patient in an ethical sense.
A. Caring Ethics
B. Nursing Ethics
C. None of the a bove
D. Both A and B

ANSWER: A
RATIO: Caring ethics deals with the basic relation between the patient and the nurse—the way in which
the nurse meets the patient in an ethical sense.

7. The following are theses of the theory. Select all that apply
A. Ethos confers ultimate meaning on the caring context.
B. The basic motive of caring is the caritas motive.
C. The basic category of caring is suffering.
D. Caring communion forms the context of meaning of caring and derives its origin from the
ethos of love, responsibility, and sacrifice, namely, caritative ethics.

ANSWER: A,B,C and D

RATIO: The theses are as follows:
1• Ethos confers ultimate meaning on the caring context.
2• The basic motive of caring is the caritas motive.
3• The basic category of caring is suffering.
4• Caring communion forms the context of meaning of caring and derives its origin from the ethos of love,
responsibility, and sacrifice, namely, caritative ethics.
5• Health means a movement in becoming, being, and doing while striving for wholeness and holiness,
compatible with
endurable suffering.
6. Caring implies alleviation of suffering in charity, love, faith, and hope. Natural basic caring is expressed
through tending,
playing, and learning in a sustained caring relationship, which is asymmetrical by nature.
8. It deals with the ethical principles and rules that guide our work or our decisions.
A. Caring Ethics
B. Nursing Ethics
C. None of the a bove
D. Both A and B

ANSWER: B
RATIO: Nursing ethics deals with the ethical principles and rules that guide my work or my decisions.

9. Dignity granted to the human being through creation is:

A. Absolute Dignity
B. Relative Dignity
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above

ANSWER: A
RATIO: Absolute dignity is granted the human being through creation, while relative dignity is influenced
and formed through culture and external contexts.

10. Katie Eriksson defines health as, all of the following EXCEPT:
A. soundness, freshness, and well-being.
B. Implies being whole in body, soul, and spirit.
C. as a pure concept wholeness and holiness.
D. as both movement and integration.
E. None of the above

ANSWER: E
RATIO: Eriksson considers health in many of her earlier writings in accordance with an analysis of the
concept in which she defines health as soundness, freshness, and well-being. The subjective dimension,
or well-being, is emphasized strongly (Eriksson, 1976). In the current axiom of health, health implies
being whole in body, soul, and spirit. Health means as a pure concept wholeness and holiness. She sees
health as both movement and integration.

AL Strategy: CAT 3-2-1

You will now respond to the following questions below. This technique will give you opportunity to
identify areas that needs re-teaching, as well as areas of interest.

Three things you learned:

1. Health have many different definitions that we can recognize in everyday life.
2. Suffering is an ontological concept described as a human being’s struggle between good and evil
in a state of becoming.
3. Suffering have different forms it can be physical, mental or emotional pain.

Two things that you’d like to learn more about:

1. How does this theory different from the others?

2. What are the results of this theory?

One question you still have:

1. Where and when caricative caring should be use?