NCM 100A THEORETICLA FOUNDATION IN NURSING

BALAGAT, NHEIL PATRICK V.

BSN – 1A
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PHILIPPINES

ELABORATE!
INSTRUCTIONS:
This lesson has undertaken the importance of caritas in the nursing profession. Through
unconditional love, we are able to holistically apply nursing practice effectively. Eriksson’s
theory teaches us more about ourselves and the world we move around in – giving emphasis on
ethical actions, developing caring cultures among others.

On the next page is a Venn Diagram. I want you to fill up ideas and concepts associated with the
words Axiom (left circle) and Theses (right circle) – or simply the difference of these words
from each other. In the middle, write their similarities.

AXIOM THESES

 The human being is

fundamental an entity
 Ethics confers ultimate
of body, soul, and
meaning on the caring
spirit.
context.
 The human being is
 The basic motive of
fundamentally a
caring is the caritas
religious being.
motive.
 The human being is
 The basic category of
fundamentally holy.
caring is suffering.
Human dignity means
 Caring communion
accepting the human
forms the context of
obligation of serving
meaning of caring and
with love, of existing
derives its origin from
for the sake of others.
the ethos of love,
 The human being lives
responsibility, and
in a reality that is
sacrifice, namely,
characterized by
caritative ethics.
mystery, infinity, and
eternity.