The student nurse is planning care for a patient who believes that Western medicine is effective but not always accurate and recognizes which nursing theory would best explain the patient's health practices?

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Leininger describes patient care and its relationship to cultural diversity. Swanson's five caring processes include maintaining belief, knowing, being with, doing for, and enabling. In the Theory of Nursing as Caring, Boykin & Schoenhofer, note that caring is defined as "the intentional and authentic presence of the nurse with another who is recognized as person living caring and growing in caring." Watson's Theory of Human Science and Human Care impacts both the person and the universe and is built upon 10 caritas processes.

The Student Nurse Is Planning Care for a Patient Who