Roaches 5C's

Roach, M. S. (1995). The dominant paradigm of the modern world. In A. Boykin (Ed.), Power, politics & public policy: a matter of caring (pp. 3-10). New York: National League for Nursing Press.

The paper I used that reference in also has the following "caring" type theorists... feel free to look them up if you're interested... -->

McCance, T. V., McKenna, H. P., & Boore, J. R. P. (1999). Caring: theoretical perspectives of relevance to nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 30(6), 1388-1395.

Roper, N., Logan, W., & Tierney, A. J. (2000). The Roper - Logan - Tierney model of nursing, based on activities of living. London: Churchill Livingstone.

Smith, K. V., & Godfrey, N. S. (2002). Being a good nurse and doing the right thing: a qualitative study. Nursing Ethics 2002, 9(3), 301-312.

Tierney, A. J. (1998). Nursing models: extant or extinct? Journal of Advanced Nursing, 28(1), 77-85.

Watson, J. (1999). Postmodern nursing and beyond. London: Churchill Livingstone.

Hey weird... this posted to the wrong thread... sorry

the five cs of caring, compassion, competence, confidence, conscience and commitment were developed by roach (1992) in an attempt to discover what a nurse does when s/he is caring.