This document discusses the concepts of love, critical caring, and peace in nursing. It provides quotes from several thinkers and theorists on these topics. Paulo Freire is quoted saying love must generate acts of freedom and not be used for manipulation. Margaret Newman discusses the necessity of unconditional love through self-awareness and attention to others. Bell Hooks writes that love and justice cannot be separated. Nel Noddings discusses caring responses that help those who are hurt while restricting freedom of perpetrators. The document emphasizes the importance of advocacy for social justice through critical caring. Finally, it discusses peace as requiring questioning power dynamics and moving beyond domination.

1. Love,
Critical Caring,
Peace
Peggy L. Chinn, RN, PhD, FAAN
International Association of Human Caring
New Orleans, May 22, 2015

2. Love
Paulo Freire

3. “The naming of the world, which is an act of
creation and re-creation, is not possible if it is
not infused with love. . . . As an act of bravery,
love cannot be sentimental; as an act of
freedom, it must not serve as a pretext for
manipulation. It must generate other acts of
freedom; otherwise, it is not love.” (Freire 1970, page 77-78)

4. Love
Margaret Newman

5. “This new order has new rules. One of them,
perhaps the foremost, is the necessity of
unconditional love, which manifests itself in
sensitivity to self, attention to others, and
creativity. This is what we seek for our clients
and ourselves.” Newman, in “Transforming Presence”, 2008 (Kindle location 168)

6. Love & Social Justice
bell hooks
(Gloria Watkins)

7. “It had become hard for me to believe in love’s
promise when everywhere I turned the
enchantment of power or the terror of fear
overshadowed the will to love.” (Hooks, 2000, p. xvi)
“There can be no love without justice”
hooks - all about love p. 19

8. Caring
Nel Noddings

9. Re-visioning evil in the world and envisioning
caring responses:
● Natural - respond to those who are hurt
● Cultural - participate as little as possible
● Intentional - respond to those who are
hurt and restrict the freedom of the
perpetrator

10. Critical Caring
Adeline Falk-Rafael

11. “Ultimately, ensuring that nurses’ capacity
for caring—including through advocacy for
social justice—is healthy and intact is not only a
personal matter for individual nurses but also of
vital importance to the nursing profession and
the society we serve.”(Falk-Rafael & Betker, 2012, p. 111)

13. Peace
Peace and Power

14. “To move toward peace, people in a
group persistently question and critique
their [experience of] the ideals of peace
powers and learned habits of power-
over powers. . . “ Chinn & Falk-Rafael,(2015) p. 68