The Nursing Theory A patient by the name of Jackson Gray is a 90-year-old patient who is diagnosed with end stage renal disease, hypertension, diabetes, and chronic heart failure. He has refused to get out of bed, refused dialysis, and states “I’m done living; I don’t want to keep going on like this.” Which all raise concerns for me as a nurse. Of the nursing theorists, I chose Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring because of the correlational of human caring and patient wellness. “The first three factors form the "philosophical foundation" for the science of caring, and the remaining seven come from that foundation” (Nursing Theory,n.d.) The first Carita is to embrace altruistic values and practice loving kindness with self and others. …show more content…
I would ask if they can feed him, doing some enjoyable activities such as cards, or even being there for emotional support by sitting and talking to him. Lastly, I would instill any religious ways that are important to him to help with accepting his health condition. Watson’s third Carita is to be sensitive to self and others by nurturing individual beliefs and practices. This carita is important because it keeps from jumping to conclusions, making judgments, and being bias in his statement “I’m done living; I don’t want to keep going on like this” may come across as a way of giving up. It would be important to think through his statement by asking myself why he is feeling this way, instead of jumping to the conclusion that he just wants to give up. Current Nursing points that the third Carita is “Striving to become sensitive, makes the nurse more authentic, which encourages self-growth and self-actualization, in both the nurse and those with whom the nurse interacts.” (Current Nursing, 2012) One circumstance under which he could be feeling this way could be due to lack of energy and vulnerability but again being sensitive to Mr. Gray’s feelings and thoughts may help patient-centered care go a long way. The fourth Carita in Watson’s theory is to develop helping, trusting, and caring relationships. Building trust happens as soon as the patient walks in the door by
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
When asked to develop a personal nursing philosophy caring was found to be the main component. Jean Watson’s Caring Science as Sacred Science reflects this philosophy in which caring is the predominate component needed in nursing. This paper will provided basic information on the Caring Science as Sacred Science Theory. The paper will further provide a personal example of a patient experience in which this theory shaped the care and healing of the patient. The personal experience to be shown in this paper involves a patient with complex chronic illness. The patient had been hospitalized for over a month. Patients with chronic illness and in the hospital often experience feeling powerless, scared, distant, and confined (Kay Hogan & Cleary, 2013). When these feelings persist they overcome the patient and do not allow the patient to concentrate on healing or being an active member of the healthcare team. Patients in this situation need caring and psychosocial support before moving on with medical care. However, this can often be hard for the healthcare team. When a patient has complex complications often treating these issues is all the team has time for due to patient load and institutional demands. Jean Watson (2009) recognizes this in her work Caring Science and Human Caring Theory: Transforming Personal and Professional Practices of Nursing and Health Care. Watson (2009) recognizes nurses are often torn between values of human caring
Although my nursing administrator experience is just beginning to bloom, my experience as a clinical coordinator and nurse liaison has helped me in shaping my philosophy and framework. Jean Watson’s theory of caring is well-defined as a discipline which incorporates human caring with the art human caring. These features are used by nurses and administrators everyday throughout their career (McEwen & Wills, 2011). Jean Watson’s theories are defined as human, health, and nursing. Jeans theory of caring encompasses human science, orientation, humanitarianism, proficiencies, and in patient care. Her beliefs were of healthcare professionals who make social, scientific, and moral contributions to mankind through human growth, which is important in the shifting healthcare of the 21st century (McEwen & Wills, 2011).
Watson has taught me that ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things. One does not need to be born privileged in order to achieve one’s dreams and ambitions. I both admire and respect Dr. Watson’s ambition, compassion, and perseverance. He wants to help the people around him and has the willpower to turn his otherwise empty words into kind actions that positively impact his community. He cares deeply for his patients, always doing the best he can to ensure he can help them in their recovery.
Jean Watson also developed a theory on the science of caring in which she indicates that there are 10 carative factors that are the basis of the science of caring as a nurse. Watson feels that ``the development of a helping-trust relationship between the nurse and patient is crucial for transpersonal caring`` (Neil &Tomey, 2006). Her fourth carative factor includes ``developing and sustaining a helping-trusting, authentic caring relationship``(Jackson, 2011)
The purpose of this paper is an overview of Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring. This theory can be taken into account as one of the most philosophicaly complicated of existent nursing theories. The Theory of Human Caring, which also has been reffered to as the Theory of Transpersonal Caring, is middle – range explanatory theory. (Fawccett, 2000) The central point of which is on the human component of caring
My nursing philosophy is influenced by ten years as a critical care nurse while caring for patients and their families during vulnerable and difficult points in their lives. In critical care, patients vary on the wellness-illness spectrum. A young trauma victim with no health history, now has a life altering diagnosis of spinal cord injury. A chronically ill patient requires dialysis and limb amputation due to complications from diabetes and hypertension. I try to assess each patient’s situation independently to decide the best approach during my care. Nurses can easily become focused on the mechanics of the Intensive Care Unit and forget a human is connected to the machines and medications.
Watson’s theory of caring is related to the nurse recognizing the patient and his needs as the priority, with regards to his body mind and spirit. Regardless of the setting, hospital, clinic, or community, care should be rendered to the patient with knowledge and skill while creating an interactive relationship that allows challenge and growth for both parties. It is not just the nurse completing tasks or treatments as ordered by the physician.
This paper will talk about Dr. Jean Watson, her theory background, and will provide the concepts of her theory. Furthermore, I will connect the theory to person, health, nursing, and environment of the caring moment and apply a transpersonal relationship and relate these issues within my Practice, skills and experience.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze and summarize the philosophy of nursing and how nursing theory guides this nurse’s practice. Information used to do this paper was retrieved from the online database, Nursing and Allied Health Source and CINAHL through the SJR State Library. Our textbook, The Conceptual Foundations and the Merriam- Webster Dictionary website was also used. Some of the search phrases used were Jean Watson theory of human caring, philosophy of nursing, and Watson’s philosophy and theory of human caring in nursing on the online database. The word philosophy was also searched on the Merriam- Webster Dictionary website. There was an abundance information throughout my research on
In this essay I am going to examine how Dr Watson is used as a
According to Watson (2005) The major conceptual elements of the caring theory are: clinical caritas processes, transpersonal caring relationship,caring moment/caring occasion and caring-healing modalities. The clinical caritas processes evolved from the original ten carative factors wherein the nurse have a deep caring for self and others based on morals ethics and philosophy. Transpersonal caring relationship is when there is a quest to be connected with another person by accepting the spiritual being through caring and healing. Caring moment is when there is a voluntary and meaningful one on one sharing made by the nurse and the other person, in this case, the patient. According to Watson, on Caring-healing modalities, “The process is intersubjective with transcendent possibilities that go beyond the given caring moment”. It is therefore recognized that the caring-healing modalities is connected with one another. Watson further explained “As nursing advances, matures, and evolves in its higher/deeper consciousness, of its timeless
The Theory of Human caring is a middle range theory developed by Jean Watson with the focus on the relation between use of the clinical caritas processes and the building of a transpersonal caring relationship within the context of caring occasion and caring consciousness. The Theory of Human Caring honors the unity of the whole human being, while focusing on creating a healing environment (Watson, 2006). Watson had preference for human science, and clearly shunned the mechanistic and reductionist word view (Watson, 1985, as cited in Fawcett & DeSanto-Madeya, 2017). According to Watson, person is “an experiencing and perceiving spiritual being” (Watson, 1999, as cited in
Watson’s transpersonal caring theory addresses a need for nursing to go beyond simply treating a patient but to create caring moments with the patient (“Core concepts,” 2010). The theory addresses the need of honoring the wishes, needs, routines, and spiritual rituals of the patient (“Core concepts,” 2010). Watson believed in taking the humanistic approach to care and making meaningful interactions with the patient that honor them as a person (“Core concepts,” 2010). Sharing the human experience is believed to expand both the patient and the nurse’s view of caring (“Core concepts,” 2010). Watson also addressed the need to create a caring environment for the patient (“Core concepts,” 2010).
* A patient’s world can become brighter or darker, secure or threatening through nurses attitude. Watson accepts Nightingale’s concept of environment and states the healing environment expands the persons awareness and consciousness, thus promoting mind-body-spirit wholeness and healing (1999,p.254.) This reminds us to keep the patient’s room tidy and comfortable, and provide spiritual support necessary for total healing.