Watson's Theory Of Human Caring Paper
Watson’s Theory of Human Caring Paper
Nurs-403 spring 2013
Introduction
A caring moment is defined as a connection with an inner life force that gravitates your mind, body, and soul towards a feeling of spirituality (Bernick, 2004). The caring moment happens when the nurse and the client come together with their unique life histories and enter into the human-to-human transaction in a given focal point in space and time (Caruso, Cisar, & Pipe, 2008). According to Watson (2012), the actions after the feeling are strictly up to the individual to decide. All of human caring is related to intersubjective human responses to health–illness–healing conditions; a knowledge of health–illness, environmental–personal relations, meaning the …show more content…
Falk- Rafael (2000) further discusses Watson as having “…. humanistic, existential, and metaphysical conceptualization of human beings underpins her view of both the transpersonal caring relationship that is central to her theory and her conceptualization of health-illness (para.7). The goal in Watson’s theory is to take a humanistic approach to nursing. If indeed the nurse demonstrated a caring attitude, this will allow for a positive nurse/patient relationship; which in turn will help the patient healing …show more content…
Supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal and spiritual environment 9. Human needs assistance 10. Existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces
[Derived from (McCance, Mckenna, & Boore, 1999)] The 10 carative noted above is influential in Watson’s vision of nurses being a caring profession. The 10 carative although would be promising if was followed in the entirety, but internalizing a few key points is ideal when caring for people in general.
Personal
Nurs-403 spring 2013
Introduction
A caring moment is defined as a connection with an inner life force that gravitates your mind, body, and soul towards a feeling of spirituality (Bernick, 2004). The caring moment happens when the nurse and the client come together with their unique life histories and enter into the human-to-human transaction in a given focal point in space and time (Caruso, Cisar, & Pipe, 2008). According to Watson (2012), the actions after the feeling are strictly up to the individual to decide. All of human caring is related to intersubjective human responses to health–illness–healing conditions; a knowledge of health–illness, environmental–personal relations, meaning the …show more content…
Falk- Rafael (2000) further discusses Watson as having “…. humanistic, existential, and metaphysical conceptualization of human beings underpins her view of both the transpersonal caring relationship that is central to her theory and her conceptualization of health-illness (para.7). The goal in Watson’s theory is to take a humanistic approach to nursing. If indeed the nurse demonstrated a caring attitude, this will allow for a positive nurse/patient relationship; which in turn will help the patient healing …show more content…
Supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal and spiritual environment 9. Human needs assistance 10. Existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces
[Derived from (McCance, Mckenna, & Boore, 1999)] The 10 carative noted above is influential in Watson’s vision of nurses being a caring profession. The 10 carative although would be promising if was followed in the entirety, but internalizing a few key points is ideal when caring for people in general.
Personal