Integration Of Caring-Healing Process to Well-Being of Patients Among Hospital Nurses: Towards Building A Helping-Trusting Relationship

The study investigated differences in the integration of the caring-healing process and its impact on the well-being of hospital nurses in selected government and private hospitals in Quezon City. The study used Kristen Swanson's theory of caring to explain the variables. The descriptive–comparative method was used with a total of one hundred sixty respondents (160): eighty (80) nurses and (80) patients in purposively selected government and private hospitals. A t-test was used to test the hypothesis. Hospital nurses consistently performed the knowing, being with patients, doing, enabling, and maintaining components of Swanson’s caring process. Significant differences were noted in the perceptions of the two groups of respondents regarding the integration of the caring-healing process and its impact on hospital nurses' well-being. Respondents from government and private hospitals showed significant differences in how they integrated caring-healing into patient well-being across Swanson’s 5 caring processes. An action program was formulated towards a helping-trusting relationship.