Conceptual Development
Conceptual origins are located in PhD work
•A conceptual framework for person-centred practice with older people (McCormack 2001, 2003)
•Caring in nursing practice: the development of a conceptual framework (McCance 2001, 2003)
Collectively, they represented a synthesis of the then available literature on caring and person-centredness (McCormack & McCance 2006).
The focus is on developing therapeutic relationships