The Moment of Establishing Transpersonal Caring in a Grieving Adolescent Daughter beside Her Mother’s Deathbed and Hansen’s Disease Survivors Sharing Their Life Review

Evidence-based nursing (EBN) ensures the science of nursing practice, while the philosophical and ethical aspects of nursing practice are based on caring. Caring not only leads to the patient and their family’s healing but also to the nurse’s professional and personal growth since caring includes mutual approval and reciprocity. In the latter half of the chapter, we explain how to establish Dr. Jean Watson’s transpersonal caring using the following two events: ① case study: An expert nurse unintentionally says, “Your mother continues to be near and protect you,” to a crying daughter beside her mother’s deathbed; and ② our project: sanatorium’s nurses listen to Hansen’s disease survivors’ life review