Jane Watson's Caring
Jean Watson 's Caring Theory
Paula Inman
NUR 403
September 5th, 2011
Stephanie Guignard
Jean Watson 's Caring Theory Jean Watson’s theory is the basis of nursing. She looks at caring separately from curing. She developed the 10 carative factors. The four discussed in this paper focus on the aspect of how hospice nurses care for their patients. Watson’s theory looks at the relationship between the patient and the nurse with her interpersonal caring. Interpersonal caring is a spiritual interaction between patient and nurse. She theorizes the need for the patient and nurse to have a “caring moment.” In some fields of nursing it is hard to find time to have a caring moment, but it can be done. In hospice, nurses are fortunate enough to have many opportunities to have that time with the patient. Her assumptions of person, health, environment, and nursing focus on need for an individual’s health to be free of illness and the nurse caring enough to promote good health. The caring aspect of nursing has been seen in most societies but not all generations.
The Theory Jean Watson was born in West Virginia. She earned her undergraduate degree in nursing and psychology from the University of Colorado. She also earned her master’s degree in psychiatric-mental health nursing, and her PhD in educational psychology and counseling at the University of Colorado. She is a Distinguished Professor of Nursing and endowed Murchinson-Scoville Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado, School of Nursing. She is the founder of the Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (Cara, 2003). Watson’s theory not only emphasizes the humanistic aspects of nursing along with scientific knowledge. ”Watson considered caring to be independent of curing. The knowledge and practice necessary for a discipline encompassing a caring-healing framework, require a syntheses of components from the arts and humanities, along with an
Paula Inman
NUR 403
September 5th, 2011
Stephanie Guignard
Jean Watson 's Caring Theory Jean Watson’s theory is the basis of nursing. She looks at caring separately from curing. She developed the 10 carative factors. The four discussed in this paper focus on the aspect of how hospice nurses care for their patients. Watson’s theory looks at the relationship between the patient and the nurse with her interpersonal caring. Interpersonal caring is a spiritual interaction between patient and nurse. She theorizes the need for the patient and nurse to have a “caring moment.” In some fields of nursing it is hard to find time to have a caring moment, but it can be done. In hospice, nurses are fortunate enough to have many opportunities to have that time with the patient. Her assumptions of person, health, environment, and nursing focus on need for an individual’s health to be free of illness and the nurse caring enough to promote good health. The caring aspect of nursing has been seen in most societies but not all generations.
The Theory Jean Watson was born in West Virginia. She earned her undergraduate degree in nursing and psychology from the University of Colorado. She also earned her master’s degree in psychiatric-mental health nursing, and her PhD in educational psychology and counseling at the University of Colorado. She is a Distinguished Professor of Nursing and endowed Murchinson-Scoville Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado, School of Nursing. She is the founder of the Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (Cara, 2003). Watson’s theory not only emphasizes the humanistic aspects of nursing along with scientific knowledge. ”Watson considered caring to be independent of curing. The knowledge and practice necessary for a discipline encompassing a caring-healing framework, require a syntheses of components from the arts and humanities, along with an
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