Jean Watson Research Paper
Caring for a Stranger: An Example of Watson 's Caring Theory
I never thought that I would find myself along a desert highway taking care of a man that I never knew. But early in my career this is exactly where I found myself. This is an example of displaying Watson’s Human Caring Theory, and how I took care of a man, in the middle of nowhere, with little more than a bottle of water and a pair of stolen gloves.
My future husband and I were driving home from Tucson, Arizona to Algona, Iowa, but we were stopping by Las Vegas, Nevada to get married along the way. We had spent our entire wedding budget to visit my dying grandmother one last time. This was a sad and happy time in my life and I spent most of the drive reflecting on how much …show more content…
Almost everybody stayed in their cars and did not bother to see if they could be of assistance. This was my wedding day, in no way did I want to get married dirty and covered in someone else’s blood. I could have also very easily stayed in my car and continued to get ready, but that would have been a disservice to me, the stranger, and to the career of nursing. A caring moment as described by second year nursing students is giving of oneself (Chipman, 1991). I feel that I gave of myself in this situation. I received no compensation and no praise. But this experience was rewarding. I will never forget this man and how I was able to keep him stable until the helicopter …show more content…
Personhood is the human being seen as a whole, made up of three parts: mind, body, and soul. Each person as a whole is larger than the separate parts put together. Transpersonal Nursing-Caring-Healing is the human to human connection between nurse and patient. The nurses’ goal is to help the patient establish equilibrium of mind, body, and spirit. Health, Illness, Disease is synchronization within the mind, body, and soul along with the synchronization between self and others. Environment is the physical and non-physical surroundings. Encompassing the nurse as “scared space” and promoting health and healing (Alligood,
I never thought that I would find myself along a desert highway taking care of a man that I never knew. But early in my career this is exactly where I found myself. This is an example of displaying Watson’s Human Caring Theory, and how I took care of a man, in the middle of nowhere, with little more than a bottle of water and a pair of stolen gloves.
My future husband and I were driving home from Tucson, Arizona to Algona, Iowa, but we were stopping by Las Vegas, Nevada to get married along the way. We had spent our entire wedding budget to visit my dying grandmother one last time. This was a sad and happy time in my life and I spent most of the drive reflecting on how much …show more content…
Almost everybody stayed in their cars and did not bother to see if they could be of assistance. This was my wedding day, in no way did I want to get married dirty and covered in someone else’s blood. I could have also very easily stayed in my car and continued to get ready, but that would have been a disservice to me, the stranger, and to the career of nursing. A caring moment as described by second year nursing students is giving of oneself (Chipman, 1991). I feel that I gave of myself in this situation. I received no compensation and no praise. But this experience was rewarding. I will never forget this man and how I was able to keep him stable until the helicopter …show more content…
Personhood is the human being seen as a whole, made up of three parts: mind, body, and soul. Each person as a whole is larger than the separate parts put together. Transpersonal Nursing-Caring-Healing is the human to human connection between nurse and patient. The nurses’ goal is to help the patient establish equilibrium of mind, body, and spirit. Health, Illness, Disease is synchronization within the mind, body, and soul along with the synchronization between self and others. Environment is the physical and non-physical surroundings. Encompassing the nurse as “scared space” and promoting health and healing (Alligood,