本研究目的是探討護理人員照顧老人時對關心的概念意義。採帕思 (Parse, 1998) 現象學研究法設計，包括參與者選擇、投入對談、抽取－綜合、啟發性分析等步驟。參與者選擇係以分層隨機取樣，抽取30位照護老人的護理人員為研究參與者，以

　　　　　Caring is the major concept in nursing. The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning of caring for nurses caring for elderly patients. Parse's phenomenology was addressed in the research design, which included four steps: participant selection, dialogical engagement, extraction-synthesis, and heuristic interpretation. By stratified sampling, 30 nurses who worked in medical-surgical wards in a general teaching hospital were selected as participants. Dialogical engagement was completed through in-depth, tape-recorded interviews on the open question,