Nursing as caring reflects an appreciation of persons in the fullness of per-sonhood within the context of the nursing situation. This view transcends perspectives adopted in an earlier period of nursing science philosophy. Examples of the earlier view include the notions of basic versus applied science, and metaphysics versus theory. The idea of a basic science of nursing disconnects nursing from its very ground of ethical value. Without a grounding in praxis, the content and activity of nursing science becomes amoral and meaningless. Similarly, this view transcends an earlier view of nursing theory that treated the unitary phenomenon of nursing as being composed of concepts that could be studied independently or as "independent and dependent variables." Nursing as caring resists fragmentation of the unitary phenomenon of our discipline. In subsequent chapters, we will more fully explore implications of this view of nursing as a human science discipline and profession.
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