Watson's Theory Of Wound Care

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The healing process in a patient with a chronic wound can be a difficult one. However when it comes to healing, it isn’t just about the specific condition which needs to be addressed It is actually more important to look at the persons wellbeing as a whole and work on helping with the healing process with that in mind. The human body and mind are powerful tools. The ability to heal is multifaceted. There are many things that are needed for a patient’s wellbeing. This, especially in wound care is broken up into many facors These include. Physical, mental, social, and spiritual. (This is taken from optimizing article) (can this be rephrased?) Due to the fact that people with chronic wounds are generally seen on a weekly basis in a clinic, the …show more content…

The human being is defined as "...a valued person in and of him or herself to be cared for, respected, nurtured, understood and assisted; in general a philosophical view of a person as a fully functional integrated self. He, human is viewed as greater than and different from, the sum of his or her parts." A human 's health includes a high level of overall physical, mental, and social function; a general adaptive-maintenance level of daily function; and the absence of illness or the process of efforts that will lead to an absence of …show more content…

Watson 's 10 carative factors are: forming humanistic-altruistic value systems, instilling faith-hope, cultivating a sensitivity to self and others, developing a helping-trust relationship, promoting an expression of feelings, using problem-solving for decision-making, promoting teaching-learning, promoting a supportive environment, assisting with gratification of human needs, and allowing for existential-phenomenological forces. The first three factors form the "philosophical foundation" for the science of caring, and the remaining seven come from that foundation. Working in a wound care setting and seeing the stress that it brings to an individual’s life is can be a challenging situation. Many people do not have a good understanding of how the human body works and how one disease process affects another. Highly educated people often have no idea how a little sore on a foot ultimately can causes loss of toes,feet and unfortunately limbs. This is where addressing the concept of well being comes into place According to blah blah blah, (DOMA INS OF WELLB EING is the article) (Health refers to the general condition of a person, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury

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