This article aims to explore and describe nurses´, patients´ and relatives´ lived experiences in care giving settings.  Findings presented emerge from reanalysis three previous qualitative studies carried out by the author.  Reanalysis is a documented method as it extend existing knowledge that generates new understanding about phenomenon experienced. Using a triangulation in approaches, the phenomenographical, phenomenological and hermeneutical reanalysis data shows the characteristics of caring as a phenomenon, conceptions of caring and how caring affects peoples being-in-the world. Using abduction and applying hermeneutic as an overall design a qualitative meta-synthesis a concept of caring is drawn from three different perspectives.