As the demands and nature of caregiving work in the health-care sector become more varied and challenging, our research and theories need to match this evolving reality. This editorial introduces theories of caregiving work and then uses each of the four papers featured in the special issue to advance a more nuanced and social approach to theorizing and studying the emotional experience of caregiving work. The articles and editorial explore the implications of whole person organizational and social supports, (un)shared social location between caregivers and patients, the complexity and consequences of emotional experience, and novel measurement and analytic tools to study them.

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医疗保健护理工作的社会背景：推动概念和方法的前沿

随着医疗保健部门护理工作的需求和性质变得更加多样化和更具挑战性，我们的研究和理论需要适应这一不断发展的现实。这篇社论介绍了看护工作的理论，然后使用了特刊中的四篇论文中的每一篇，以推进一种更加细致入微的社会方法来理论化和研究看护工作的情感体验。文章和社论探讨了全人组织和社会支持、护理人员和患者之间（非）共享的社会位置、情感体验的复杂性和后果以及研究它们的新颖测量和分析工具的含义。