Nursing

|Jean Watson's Philosophy of Nursing |
|This page was last updated on January 26, 2012 |
|[pic] |
|Introduction |
|Theorist - Jean Watson was born in West Virginia, US |
|Educated: BSN, University of Colorado, 1964, MS, University of Colorado, 1966, PhD, |
|University of Colorado, 1973 |
|Distinguished Professor of Nursing and Chair in Caring Science at the University of |
|Colorado Health Sciences Center. |
|Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. |
|Dean of Nursing at the University Health Sciences Center and President of the National |
|League for Nursing |
|Undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing and psychiatric-mental health nursing and |
|PhD in educational psychology and counseling. |
|Six (6) Honorary Doctoral Degrees. |
|Research has been in the area of human caring and loss. |
|In 1988, her theory was published in “nursing: human science and human care”. |
|The seven assumptions |
|Caring can be effectively demonstrated and practiced only interpersonally. |
|Caring consists of carative factors that result in the satisfaction of certain human |
|needs. |
|Effective caring promotes health and individual or family growth.