Dr. Jean Watson is a scholar, nurse, humanitarian and more. She is currently a professor at the University Of Colorado Denver School Of Nursing and has many distinguished titles such as Dean of nursing at the University Health Science Center as well as president of the National League of Nursing. She has earned her degrees, both graduate and undergraduate, in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and has excelled to the point of receiving various prestigious awards and writing her own award winning books. Dr. Jean Watson based her theory on caring for the individual and their families. She believed that she should be the base of the caring and healing environment and that nursing entailed the requirement offering loving, nurturing care to all her patients. She believed that caring and kindness was the core of nursing. Dr. Jean Watson also believed that nurses should believe in miracles. She believed that she, as well as others, should be open to the miracles and unexpected events that occur in life. Dr. Watson is a very positive and caring person and shows that through her theory of nursing. Dr. Jean Watson's theory focused on love with the attention to values, the strong and trusting relationship she developed and maintained with her patients, the ability to care and be understanding of other people with different backgrounds and cultures and a respect for a science and multiple means of acquiring information. Dr. Watson's theory has a reflective and meditative approach to nursing that entailed looking at a patient's situation and condition through a holistic approach. Dr. Watson's theory had a basic focus on caring that extended from her patients to helping the universe as a whole. Jean Watson's theory can be represented b... ... middle of paper ... ...ys the case with people who work in psychological health. Showing people that you respect them and are open to understanding them can remove a large barrier that stays in place in many situations in the mental health profession. Florida Career College focuses a great deal on Dr. Jean Watson's theory of caring as it pertains to nursing, as written in their statement, "The College That Cares". Jean Watson has worked on perfecting what she believed was a useful, effective method and thought process to nursing; this pertains to Florida Career College's nursing program because a main goal of the college is to produce students who understand and appreciate how much caring, respect and understanding is in life and moreover in nursing. Personally as a Florida Career College student I strive to reinforce Dr. Jean Watson's theory of caring into my future career as a nurse.
Both theories use communication as the backbone to their theories and in developing an environment conducive to promote healing. Although communication is the framework for both theories, types of communication is looked at different in each theory. In Watson’s theory, she that communication is a spiritual occurrence. The focus is on nonverbal as well as verbal expressions. She also involves personal experiences and growth, art, religious practices. Watson uses the concept of care as the center of nursing care. The goal of the Human Care Theory is for the patient and nurse to gain a higher degree of harmony within themselves, cultivating a wholeness of mind/body/spirit (Watson Caring Science Institute, 2010, p.
In the field of Nursing, the role of caring is an important, if not the most critical, aspect involved to ensure that the patient is provided with the most proficient healthcare plan possible. Jean Watson developed a series of theories involved with transpersonal relationships and their importance, along with caring, in the restorative process of the patient and healing in general. Although all of Watson 's caritas processes are crucial to the role of nurses and patient care, the fourth process is incredibly essential as it outlines the importance of the caring nurse-patient relationship. This paper serves to identify Watson 's fourth caritas process, how it can be integrated in nursing care and how it can be developed by current nursing
As a contemporary nurse theorist, she was trying to integrate her dominant discourse with another parallel of her time- Martha Rogers. Her action is a brave attempt to create a meta-paradigm for nursing- a Unitary Science. Watson acknowledges the argument of Paley (2001) that the caring is an elusive concept but points out that it is elusive because of its diversity. She borrowed Heidegger and Husserl’s words to criticize Paley’s attempt to reach the tautological conclusion about the caring concept in nursing and urged him to understand caring as a tool rather than something to be observed. When she suggested that the elusiveness of the caring concept paradoxically motivates nurses to chase it; it resonated with many nursing theorists. Even though I am not sure about how Paley responded to Watson’s argument, many nursing theorists took the word of Watson and used caring as a tool in their conceptual framework including Kristen Swanson in her caring theory and succeeded in their
182), having only been completely codified in 1979, revised in 1985 (Watson, 1988), and expanded and advanced lately (Watson, 2005, 2008). Watson states that she was motivated to develop her model of human caring because of a deep concern for preserving humanity today and to rediscover the human spirit. She expresses a commitment of moving nursing away from the limitations of the philosophy of positivism or a system that hold every rationally defensible assertion can be scientifically justified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and that therefore rejects metaphysics and faith. The central focus of Watson’s conceptual nursing model is human care. Human care, as conceived by Watson, is an intersubjective process and an epistemic effort that include human-to-human interaction. Watson has always been explicit in describing the human as a holistic, interactive being possessing energy field experiencing health and illness as characteristics of human pattern (Watson,
In conclusion, Jean Watson’s theory of caring, a middle-range theory, provides essential framework and guidelines in nursing shortage problem. Nurses who exposed to caring theory have moral and ethical obligations to care for others during challenging situations. Patients, families and other professionals depend on nursing profession, their expertise and knowledge for best patient
One theorist named Jean Watson, her focus was to build trusting relationships so they could work together to provide the best nursing care. She wanted the patients to voice their concerns of any health issue arising or another concern. All of this while having a professional relationship and never acting
Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring. Since its establishment as a profession more than a century ago, nursing has been a source for numerous debates related to its course, methods and development of nursing knowledge. Many nursing definitions and theories have evolved over time. Furthermore, it is in a constant process of being redefined.
She received her nursing degree in 1961 and moved to Colorado and received her BSN, Master’s, and Doctorate degree. She worked for the college as a nursing faculty as a teacher and administrator, including chair and assistant dean of the undergraduate nursing program. She created the Center for Human Caring that helps nurses to transform the healthcare system to a more care centered program. Jean Watson’s philosophy and science of caring is amoral idea that involves the mind and body. To be able to care for someone you must care for yourself and you must practice caring. You must be present and supportive and be able to interact with the patient so the patient will feel more at ease. You must have compassion for oneself and the
When I became a nurse, in my heart, I knew that I was a caring person; however, I did not have a caring theory driving my practice. After studying Watson’s Human Caring Science Theory, the theory is consistent with my values, which emphasizes a holistic approach with mind, body, and spirit through a caring nurse patient relationship in an environment that promotes healing, comfort, and dignity. Human Caring Science gives the privilege of viewing human life with wonder, respect, and appreciates small and large miracles, which allows the inner world of the patient and nurse to come together in a unique human relationship, in the here and now moment (Watson, 2012, p. 24).
Jean Watson, a nursing theorist graduated in 1961 from Lewis Gale School of Nursing and continued her love for nursing at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 1964, she earned her BSN, then her masters in 1966 in psychiatric and mental health nursing; there after a Ph.D. in educational psychology and counseling in 1973 (Watson, 2012). Jean Watson has written and published several books on philosophy of science and caring. She is inspirational and enjoy reading her work, her biography, and her thoughts on caring for others.
One must have the full desire to help and care for people in order to have an enjoyable career as a nurse. Nurses are known for the care and compassion shown to the patients and this is comforting for both patients and their families. Caring for a patient can raise their spirits and can inspire a better outlook on their situation. As a nurse, I want to care for all my patients with the hope of improving their health and outlook on their life. I chose Jean Watson because she understands that caring is the core of nursing and believes caring promotes a better health than only performing medical care. She was the first grand theorist that focused on the aspect of caring for the patient while also caring for yourself as the nurse. Watson’s theory
Participant 4 stated, “I think just basically being there for the family as well…I think even just a cup of tea can go a long way with any family (McCallum & McConigley, 2013). Another theory that intertwines with Watson’s is Barbara Dossey’s Theory of Integral Nursing. Dossey articulates, “Healing is not predictable, it is not synonymous with curing but the potential for healing is always present even until one’s last breath,” (Parker and Smith, 2015, p. 212). Dossey believes that integral nursing is a comprehensive way to organize different situations in fours perspectives (nurse, health, person and environment) of reality with the nurse as an instrument in the healing process by bringing his or her whole self into a relationship with another whole self. In the HDU, the RN’s interacted with each patient while providing high quality care to create a healing environment for the patient and family even when their prognosis was otherwise. Patient 3 specified that “We still have to provide care...and make the family feel that they are comfortable and looked after” (McCallum & McConigley, 2013). These theories ultimately show the importance of a nurse through the aspects of caring to create and maintain a healing environment that is not only beneficial to the patient but to their loved ones as
Watson’s theory may be identified as complex due to it having multiple concepts and assumptions. The relationships between the concepts are organized by identifying the core concepts for nursing. The theory was organized around ten curative factors as an underlying framework. Watson’s carative factors are seen as nurse-patient interactions that enhance the actual caring experience.
Jean Watson “was born and grew up in the small town of Welch, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains” (Jesse & Alligood, 2014, p. 79). Watson attended and graduated the Lewis Gale School of Nursing in 1961 before moving to Colorado and completing the remainder of her degrees at the University of Colorado (Jesse & Alligood, 2014). She holds a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees. “Watson and her colleagues established the Center for Human Caring” (Jesse & Alligood, 2014, p. 80). She has also received six honorary doctorate degrees, the Fetzer Institute’s national Norman Cousins award and is recognized as a distinguished Nurse Scholar. Watson has also been the author of 11 books and has helped write six more (Jesse & Alligood,
According to Kristen Swanson’s theory of caring, caring consists of Knowing, Being with, Doing for, Enabling, and maintaining belief. She believes that the environment and what is in the environment can affect people, either positively or negatively. As a nursing student, I possess the qualities of enabling, doing for, and being with. These qualities are implanted in me via my upbringing, culture, religious belief, and life experience/encounters(my environment). “Enabling” is the nurses’ responsibility to help the make a transition into the unknown.