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Caring as a generative principle: reconfiguring the metaparadigm and operative mechanisms in nursing theory

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dc.contributor.authorMuñoz Devea, Aaron
dc.contributor.authorMuñoz Devesa, Aarón
dc.contributor.authorRico Becerra, Juan Ignacio
dc.contributor.departmentCiencias Sociosanitarias
dc.contributor.otherFacultades de la UMU::Facultad de Ciencias Sociosanitarias (Lorca)
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-16T12:57:08Z
dc.date.available2026-02-16T12:57:08Z
dc.date.copyright© 2026 The Author(s)
dc.date.issued2026-02-15
dc.description.abstractAim(s) To develop a comparative meta-theory of nine caring theories by explicating their assumptions, operative mechanisms and consequences for nursing. Design Qualitative meta-theoretical document analysis. Methods Canonical texts were analysed using an intra-source strategy. Paginated statements were extracted and coded across assumptions, metaparadigm anchors (person, health, environment, nursing and care) and mechanisms linking caring intention to clinical action. Synthesis produced a typology and meta-theoretical propositions. Results Caring functioned as a generative principle that reorganised person, health, environment and nursing and care into distinct practice architectures. Six mechanism-based subfamilies were identified: transpersonal caritas; phenomenological and embodied clinical wisdom; ethical and relational caring; cultural and contextual caring; systemic and organisational caring; and operationalisable caring. Ten propositions linked assumptions to mechanisms and expected effects. Conclusion The caring school is best understood as an ordered set of non-equivalent caring mechanisms rather than a single doctrine, supporting translation to practice design, education and congruent evaluation. Implications for the Profession and/or Patient Care Mechanism-based comparison can reduce conceptual ambiguity and improve alignment between caring interventions and intended outcomes. Impact This study addresses the under-specification of how caring theories work. It provides a comparative typology and propositions that make mechanisms explicit, informing nursing education, theory development and caring-based practice in diverse settings. Reporting Method No EQUATOR reporting checklist is available for meta-theoretical discursive analyses; the manuscript follows Journal of Advanced Nursing guidance for discursive papers. Patient or Public Contribution This study did not include patient or public involvement in its design, conduct, or reporting.
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dc.identifier.citationJournal of Advanced Nursing, 2026, Early View
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/jan.70544
dc.identifier.eissn1365-2648
dc.identifier.issn0309-2402
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/205821
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relationSin financiación externa a la Universidad
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jan.70544
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dc.subjectMeta theory
dc.subjectNursing metapardigm
dc.subjectNursing theory
dc.subjectPhilosophy of nursing
dc.subjectCaring
dc.subject.odsNo relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.titleCaring as a generative principle: reconfiguring the metaparadigm and operative mechanisms in nursing theory
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