Caring orientation has been studied and found beneficial
for both patients and nurses. Drach-Zahavy (2009) found that
patient-centered care was detrimental to the physical health of
nurses. However, such an orientation was found beneficial to
patients and seemed to protect nurses from physical health
deterioration. Other studies have identified important techniques
for enhancing caring. For example, reauthoring of a
patient-problem-saturated story is one of three techniques
where nurses at all levels may act as collaborators to enhance
positively patient self esteem (Aloi, 2009).