Jean Watson : The Philosophy And Science Of Caring

Human caring is what sets nursing apart from other professions. As Watson (1998) stated, “care and love are the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of cosmic forces: they comprise the primal universal psychic energy. Caring is the essence of nursing and the most central and unifying focus for nursing practice” (p. 32-33). It is important to establish a good nurse-patient relationship in order to create a healing environment that would meet patient’s needs on all levels including physical, mental/emotional and spiritual, promote recovery, maintain health, and create positive outcomes. Jean Watson emphasized the importance of human

Dr. Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring was released in 1979, and has continued to evolve over the past three decades. Watson's theory describes a philosophical foundation for nursing, which puts caring at the center of practice. It focuses on patient centered care, with emphasis on developing a trusting mutual bond. The caring environment allows for optimal health promotion, growth, empowerment, and disease prevention. The present paper discusses the theory's main concepts, and the significance of the model to nurses, nurse practioners, and health organizations. As well as, how the theory applies to my personal nursing philosophy.

According to Morse et al. (2006), “A deeper understanding of hope is tested based on the work and place in the theoretical framework and nursing context.” Several authors, in different studies within the nursing domain,

Katie Eriksson, a native of Finland, graduated from nursing school in 1965. She practiced nursing, but primarily worked as a teacher and researcher. After many years of practicing nursing science, studying, teaching and researching, Eriksson went on to develop the caritative theory of caring. Eriksson’s theory disects and explains the basic concepts necessary for caring for a patient. The theory is focused around several major concepts, axioms and theses, and constantly impacts nursing practices of today. In order to understand caritative care, one must first understand the foundational meaning and major concepts.

Watson recommends that we see nursing as an art rather than as an obligation to cure and that we turn back to the remembrance of our original desire for wishing to become a nurse. The duties of nursing, she proposes, has turned us from motivation (or "body") into machine, making us lose our original purpose and turning nursing into a profession that is contrary to what it is inherently supposed to be. Nursing is supposed to be a spiritual profession involving healing as per the literal and traditional sense of the word, literally 'nursing'. To retain that focus and adherence to the meaning involves a holistic, spiritual focus on all aspects of the patient and on realizing the significance and impact of the nurse-patient dynamic. According to Watson (2001), we can do this by following the three grounding principles of her theory which are: (a) the carative factor by mindfully and calmly practicing loving kindness to the patient, (b) the transpersonal caring relationship and, (c) the caring occasion/ caring moment which is a special kind of human relationship that transcends one's own ego in caring and dedication to the needs of the others.

2). In Lesson 5, we studied Jean Watson’s philosophy of care. Caring is one of the foundations nursing is based on. I learned the meaning of a Carita’s moment that it is a transpersonal interaction that is a deep spiritual connection that two humans share (Blais & Hayes, 2016). I found that during a caring moment with a patient, I found that I had applied some of Watson’s 10 caritas to my patient. There were several caring factors and caritas that came to light during this interaction, however the one that stands out most is the tenth caritas. This caritas process

" The nursing profession, and each nurse within it, is invited to consider/reconsider: How do we walk through life? How do we get our footing to bring the artistry of caring and global caritas consciousness into our lives, our work, and our world?"

The purpose of this paper is to relate a caring theory to my philosophy of nursing for individuals experiencing illness and hospitalization. I chose Kristen Swanson’s caring theory as I believe her 5 processes of caring of knowing, being with, doing for, enabling and marinating belief should be practiced by all nurses worldwide (Swanson, 2013). She explores all the essential requirements every nurse should have to give to their patient and I agree that they are very important to deliver clients he best care they deserve (Swanson, 2013).

Watson theory of nursing care stated that “caring can be effectively demonstrated and practiced only interpersonaly”(Current Nursing, 2012). The nurse connects with the patient spiritually and

Emoto, R., Tsutsui, M., & Kawana, R. (2015). A Model to Create a Caring and Healing

Jeanne Watson recommends a turning back to the remembrance of our original desire for wishing to become a nurse. According to her, duties of nursing have turned us from motivation (or "body") into machine. Similar to the AACN's dislike of the customer model of patient, Watson recommends a human approach that comes about through perceiving nursing as acting in the moment. Using ten 'Curative Factors' or 'Caritas Processes', Watson describes how we can transform the 'machine' that we have become back into our original 'body'

This paper will explore the beginnings of one of nursing’s most popular theories. Jean Watson established her caring theory in nursing which is still widely used today. In this paper, the author will explore the history of this theory as well as the changes that have occurred over time. The reader will gain insight as to how the theory was formed and how it is still used in today’s nursing practice.

Theories contain concepts, definitions, models, propositions, and are based on assumptions rather than concrete facts (Nursing Theories, 2012). They are used as a tool for reasoning, critical thinking and decision making. The nursing profession uses theories as the framework and foundation for practice to strengthen our nursing knowledge. As we advance in our profession, theories are constantly tested to determine if they still have an applicable meaning or do they need to be modified. This paper will give an overview of Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring and its impact on our nursing

The nursing theory is essentially a set of beliefs, ideas, thought, and hypotheses that are influenced from former nursing representations that have a structured view of the purposes of nursing attempting to explain the correlation of each concept with predictability. (personal experience with nursing theory). This paper will address the core elements of Dr. Jean Watson’s theory of caring science. We will scrutinize the essential key concepts of the theory and its relationship with the other elements, emphasize its effects in a clinical situation, and how it views the nursing policies with definite personal examples.

Throughout each nurse’s career, many theories and models have directed the individual practices throughout every specific field of nursing. One of the theories that not only directs a nurse’s practice, but also continues to be a positive influence to the practice is Watson’s theory of human caring. The utilization of Watson’s theory of human caring is extremely relevant within the critical care arena, specifically because of the high acuity of the patient population. The practical application of this theory is explored utilizing several important elements to describe a personal interaction between the patient populations.