Studies of caring. An early exploratory study of care was done by Henry (1975). Fifty patients receiving professional nursing care in the home were interviewed using open-ended questioning. The sample gave 214 responses specifying which behaviors of the nurse indicated caring to them. The responses were then sorted and categorized into three major categories; (a) what the nurse does, (b) how the nurse does, and (c) how much the nurse does. The largest number of responses (108 or 51%) fell into the category of "how the nurse does," and the category of "what the nurse does" received 78 (37%) responses. Most patients identified behaviors that were classified in a combination of "what the nurse does" and "how the nurse does" categories. When the
