The aim of this study was to identify the distinctive foundations of the care culture and how nurse leaders ( NL) can manage and strengthen these in a quest for ethically sustainable caring cultures. Conclusion The basis of good care, patient safety and sustainability is comprised of ethics with a respectful and dignified care that is evidence-based and economically stable. Through their management NLs have a responsibility to nurture and protect the core of caring and create contextual, professional and cultural prerequisites to maintain the core and art of caring as well as care staff’s ethical and professional competence.
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