Commentary on Finfgeld-Connett D (2008) Meta-synthesis of caring in nursing. Journal of Clinical Nursing 17, 196–204.

The article presents the author's comment on the article "Meta-synthesis of caring in nursing," by D. Finfgeld-Connett. The author says that Finfgeld-Connett's paper is the most recent twist in the spiral, another indicator of the stranglehold that the knowledge- as-list-of-descriptions theory has on nursing. He comments that knowledge of caring is basically a list of things said about caring by nurses and patients usually recorded in qualitative studies, together.