Assumptions are principles that are being accepted as true based on logic reason even without proof. The following assumptions provide essential elements of Dr. Locsin’s theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing that guides nurses in the practice as knowing persons as whole through the proficient use of technologies in caring of our patients.

 

1. Persons are caring by virtue of their humanness (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 2001)

 

All persons are caring. The expression of caring may differ from one another. In nursing, to care is the main focus of the discipline. It is not simply an act or emotion one may portray but it is the source that directs the nature of our profession.

 

2. Persons are whole or complete in the moment (Boykin & Shoenhofer, 2001)

 

Nothing is missing, this assumption focuses on the topic that persons are whole in ways created by philosophical perspective that you are complete without reference to composition of parts. This ideal provided us with viewing lenses to see nursing as a shared and lived experience between the nurse and its patients.

 

3. Knowing persons is a multidimensional process (Locsin, 2005)

 

It is a process in which the nurse and patients focuses on appreciating, celebrating, supporting and affirming each other moment to moment

 

4. Technologies of health and nursing are elements of caring (Locsin, 2005)

 

We are able to see as a nurse that human beings more fully as a person has a big part in caring for themselves rather than a recipient of care from others.

 

5. Nursing is a discipline and a professional practice (Boykin and Schoenhofer, 2001)

 

We have our own body of knowledge which is called “Nursing Science”. In which we are the scholars who develops knowledge by research within the scope of our own technological domain and phenomena.