Watson and Pauley

The 21st century healthcare culture has increased demands for quantity and efficiency, which has caused increased stress on practitioners and staff within health care (Dudkiewicz, 2014). This causes distance between healthcare providers and patients leading to unsatisfied holistic needs. Jean Watson created the theory of human caring to emphasize the importance of connectedness between all humans through holistic care, and nourishing others and one’s self in a personal and professional way (Sitzman & Watson, 2014). The obstacles Jean Watson faced led her to create and revise her theory on the philosophy and science of caring, which then evolved and adapted in hospitals, and continues to shape the nursing practice today.

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.

Nursing care incorporates not only a compassionate attitude but passion for care of patients. The caring component of nursing cannot be measured, rather dissected through theory within the clarification of what nurses do. Systemically this is all supported through abundant theories and theorist. The nursing profession emphasizes on holistic care which is defined as treatment of the whole person. Within this skill is the admittance of problems that are biomedical but also opportune clarification of the well-being and health of a human that introduces added indicators of disease that are non-visualized (Powers, 2011).

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

The purpose of this paper is to present a personal belief about the metaparadigm of nursing and to incorporate it into that of Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring.

Jean Watson’s theories of nursing are instrumental in today’s structure of nursing. Watson’s theories are being practiced in various health care setting all over the world. One of these theories in the nursing process. This entails first assessing patient, planning, intervention and evaluation. There is multitude of research proving these theories to be effective in treating and caring for patients with this consistent approach. In this paper I will dissect her different carative factors learned and that

The caring theorist, Jean Watson, first developed her theory and published the philosophy and science of caring in 1979 (Current Nursing, 2011). She describes nursing as a process of caring not curing, and that it is effectively practiced and demonstrated interpersonally only. Her theory also “suggests that caring is a different way of being human, present, attentive, conscious, and intentional” (Wafika, Welmann, Omer, & Thomas, December 2009, p. 293). Watson believed that “caring is central to nursing and the unifying focus for [our] practice (Blais, Hayes,

Jean Watson, PHD, RN, AHC-BC, FAAN is a recognized professor of nursing, and beneficiary of the Murchinson-Scoville Blessed Seat in Caring Science, at the College of Colorado in Denver, Colorado. She is a researcher, creator, instructor, and originator of the Watson Caring Science Establishment, a worldwide, non-benefit establishment that is devoted to supporting, growing and augmenting the hypotheses and practices of human caring in social insurance (Watson Caring Science Organization, n.d). Jean Watson has six privileged doctorates and has gone all through the world developing, showing and operationalizing the theory of human caring in the work of medical nurses and social insurance. Jean Watson was conceived in West Virginia in July of 1940. She moved on from nursing school in 1961 in Virginia and afterward went to the College of Colorado to finish her BS, and MS in nursing and her Ph.D. in 1973.

" 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?"

I selected Jean Watson’s theory to research and write about because of its significant relevance to the professional and personal qualities of an effective, successful, nurse. The Ten Carative Factors are the basis of the Caring Science Theory, and serve as a guide to use when caring. They are skills and qualities I hope to master, and also qualities I deeply admire in other nurses. Jean Watson’s theory and ideas can be helpful if applied beyond nursing to personal interactions between all people. The idea of nurses needing instruction in how to emotionally care for patients seems common sense, but almost everyone could benefit from having a poster of the Ten Carative Factors hanging in their bedroom. In today’s fast-paced, cost effective setting, nurses need reminders to bring the focus back to caring for the patient as a person, not just symptoms or disease.

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.

For Watson, one cannot view nursing as just a science, but a combination of art and science that uses the process of caring to increase the ability of the healthcare profession to understand and mitigate disease. Caring, though, is really the core ethic of nursing and not just the verbiage, but the commitment and complete viewpoint towards the patient that is continually manifested in deed and thought. This caring paradigm goes far beyond any one individual nurse and produces acts of caring that transcend any one theory and become associated with a greater good holism and non-judgmental care (Watson, 1989, 32).

Dr. Jean Watson She was born on June 10, 1940 in Williamson, West Virginia, USA. She pursues her education of BSN in University of Colorado, 1964, Masters in University of Colorado, 1966, and doctoral degree in University of Colorado, 1973. Jean Watson’s Theory of Nursing Care is a middle-range theory that focuses on the interconnectedness of patient and nurse. Nurses play a vital role in their patients’ life and by developing caring behaviors, they could facilitate healing. This theory also focuses on authentically caring about the whole patient and understanding the power of a meaningful therapeutic relationship. Watson believes

Jean Watson was born in West Virginia. In 1961, Jean Watson got married and moved to Colorado where she pursued her nursing education at the University of Colorado (Alligood, 2017). Watson acquired her undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing and psychiatric-mental health nursing. She also obtained her PhD in educational psychology and counseling from the University of Colorado (Jean Watson’s Philosophy of Nursing, 2012). Jean Watson has six doctoral degrees. Watson was the Dean of Nursing at the University of Health Sciences Center (Jean Watson’s Philosophy of Nursing, 2012). Jean Watson was also a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (Jean Watson’s Philosophy of Nursing, 2012). She was also the President of the National League for Nursing. Throughout her career, she has written many books and published many articles in nursing. Jean Watson is a nurse theorist and her Human Science and Human Care theory was published in 1988 (Jean Watson’s Philosophy of Nursing, 2012).