Kristen Swanson Summary

Kristen Swanson (1991) began her career as an OB nurse and was interested in the effects that miscarriages and death of younger children had on mothers. Swanson and her colleagues began to look at how the mothers handled the circumstances of the death of a child at a young age over the course of three studies done during the 1980’s. What was discovered was that the staff members were able to help the mothers during these periods by showing compassionate care for the patients and the families. Swanson was a student of Jean Watson, who is another nursing theorist interested in the idea of caring. Swanson began the journey of researching caring while at a support group for women that had miscarried a child. The physician that was giving the lecture