Nursing Watson believed that nursing was based off of a transpersonal caring relationship. The transpersonal concept was a human-to-human relationship in which the nurse and patient affect one another, and are both fully engaged in the moment. This would promote a very trusting relationship between the patient and the nurse, allowing the patient to see that the nurse is not just working for him or her, rather working with him or her to achieve a common goal. Watson discovered that the most effective way of bringing patients to their optimum health was to connect with the patient spiritually and emotionally, and not just looking at the main source of healing to be the patient’s physical health. “Watson states that she was motivated to develop …show more content…
In the eye’s of Watson she expressed nursing to be a unity of both the nurse and the patient. She also expressed that when the patient was subjective of their experiences that the nurse would not just look at it as the patient’s words spoken, but would union with their words and experience it with the patient. This would allow the nurse to step into the patient’s shoes and connect emotionally and spiritually. With a union of each other’s feelings, the recipient would have an increased sense of harmony of the mind, body, and soul. Watson’s nursing theory is based off the belief that healing of the soul is the most important aspect of healing as a whole. When this occurred, Watson viewed this as transpersonal caring, which is her belief as the moral ideal values of …show more content…
She explains how these students experienced the art of caring. “Students at this major university identified factors and conditions influencing their caring relationships. These included relating to patients as unique human beings and becoming involved in patients’ illness worlds by making inquiries into how the patient experienced those worlds” (Hoffman, S. F. 2013). This directly is related to the theory Jean Watson created of experiencing the patient’s reality with the patient. Using Watson’s theory creates a deep understanding for students in nursing and health care professionals to understand patients’ situations emotionally, spiritually, and
Both theories use communication as the backbone to their theories and in developing an environment conducive to promote healing. Although communication is the framework for both theories, types of communication is looked at different in each theory. In Watson’s theory, she that communication is a spiritual occurrence. The focus is on nonverbal as well as verbal expressions. She also involves personal experiences and growth, art, religious practices. Watson uses the concept of care as the center of nursing care. The goal of the Human Care Theory is for the patient and nurse to gain a higher degree of harmony within themselves, cultivating a wholeness of mind/body/spirit (Watson Caring Science Institute, 2010, p.
Dr. Jean Watson's theory focused on love with the attention to values, the strong and trusting relationship she developed and maintained with her patients, the ability to care and be understanding of other people with different backgrounds and cultures and a respect for a science and multiple means of acquiring information. Dr. Watson's theory has a reflective and meditative approach to nursing that entailed looking at a patient's situation and condition through a holistic approach. Dr. Watson's theory had a basic focus on caring that extended from her patients to helping the universe as a whole.
Participant 4 stated, “I think just basically being there for the family as well…I think even just a cup of tea can go a long way with any family (McCallum & McConigley, 2013). Another theory that intertwines with Watson’s is Barbara Dossey’s Theory of Integral Nursing. Dossey articulates, “Healing is not predictable, it is not synonymous with curing but the potential for healing is always present even until one’s last breath,” (Parker and Smith, 2015, p. 212). Dossey believes that integral nursing is a comprehensive way to organize different situations in fours perspectives (nurse, health, person and environment) of reality with the nurse as an instrument in the healing process by bringing his or her whole self into a relationship with another whole self. In the HDU, the RN’s interacted with each patient while providing high quality care to create a healing environment for the patient and family even when their prognosis was otherwise. Patient 3 specified that “We still have to provide care...and make the family feel that they are comfortable and looked after” (McCallum & McConigley, 2013). These theories ultimately show the importance of a nurse through the aspects of caring to create and maintain a healing environment that is not only beneficial to the patient but to their loved ones as
Have you ever thought to yourself if something is morally right? In the article “Crick, Watson, and Franklin” by Cynthia Stokes Brown and she discusses the story of how DNA was discovered. Crick and Watson used Rosalind Franklin’s images without permission and people have mixed feelings about this. Some believe that use of any work is fine, others think Franklin didn’t get the credit, and some think it doesn’t matter as long as we are advancing in science.
I would personally use and I believe that transpersonal caring relationship was manifested throughout the movie. It is defined as human-to-human connectedness that is occurring in a nurse-patient encounter that each is touched by one another (George, 2010). Nurse Susie is the primary nurse of Vivian Bearing since admission. Since then, they both have built a unique relationship that was not common to other individuals. She demonstrated a caring-trusting relationship in which Vivian can talk to her in a casual manner and can express herself in a way that nobody will judge and would understand what she is been going through. For instance, they would talk over a deep conversation with popsicles as Nurse Susie comfortably raised her feet up. As evidence in one of the scene where Vivian realizes that she is not doing so well and showing her vulnerability and said, “I am scared…Now I am not sure of myself anymore. I am going to die” (Wit, 2001) and then Nurse Susie stood by her, holding her hands and offering relief to relax and be calm and responded in empathy that says “I understand… it’s okay… it’s alright” (Wit, 2001) and offered popsicles to have some relief. According to George (2010) caring- healing potentiates harmony, wholeness, and comfort and promote inner healing by releasing some of the disharmony and negative energy that may interfere with the healing process. Through this Nurse Susie provided comfort and healing just by listening to all the fears and pains that Miss Bearing has been dealing with. They both have established that nurse-patient relationship where both comfortable with each other. Thus, Miss Bearing felt relieved after that as she continue to fight for her life every day. Those small acts of kindness makes a big difference in the patients’
The concept of person needs to be explored to go into further depth with the remaining concepts of the metaparadigm of nursing. Person refers to the person undergoing nursing care which includes individuals, families, groups, and communities (MacIntyre & McDonald, 2014, p.63). It is evident that each person may be unique with different biological, psychological, social, and spiritual depth (Thorne, 2010, p.66). Therefore, it is necessary for nurses to realize that each person at the centre of any nursing care will experience different feelings in regards to their body as a whole. The theorist, Parse, defines the concept of person as being “linked to an unfolding process, the relating of value priorities, meaning, and quality of life” (Wu, 2008, p.6). Also those human beings are free and choose in situations that arise from personal experience and becoming with the universe (Thorne, 2010, p.71). The nurses’ role in regards to this theory is to act encourage individuals in their human becoming process. Wu (2008) looks at the p...
She proposed that caring and love are universal and mysterious (Wagner, 2010). Watson believes that health professionals make moral, social, and scientific contributions to humanity and that a nurses' caring ideal can affect human development (Wagner, 2010). Watson believes that it is imperative in today's society to maintain a caring ideology in practice (Wagner, 2010). Caring is a concept that focuses on having a respectful, non-judgmental, supportive attitude that contributes to the healing process. Watson's theory, in relationship to the metaparadigm of nursing, focuses on the relationship between the nurse and the patient (Wagner, 2010). According to Watson's theory, the nurse and patient form a caring relationship where both the patient and the nurse promote healing (Wagner, 2010). In general, the theory of caring reminds us that a nurse can have a great impact on the life of a patient. If I were to add a new conceptual metaparadigm, it would be the concept of caring since I firmly believe that without caring it will be almost impossible to have wellness at all. If I were to choose one metaparadigm concept to eliminate, I would opt to remove the concept of health since I think that in the concepts of caring and nursing the individual's health should be fully
In the field of Nursing, the role of caring is an important, if not the most critical, aspect involved to ensure that the patient is provided with the most proficient healthcare plan possible. Jean Watson developed a series of theories involved with transpersonal relationships and their importance, along with caring, in the restorative process of the patient and healing in general. Although all of Watson 's caritas processes are crucial to the role of nurses and patient care, the fourth process is incredibly essential as it outlines the importance of the caring nurse-patient relationship. This paper serves to identify Watson 's fourth caritas process, how it can be integrated in nursing care and how it can be developed by current nursing
Watson conceived her Theory of Human Caring while she was teaching at the University of Colorado in 1975 to 1979 (Conway et al, 2011). It evolved from her personal views on nursing and merged with her learning and experience from her doctoral studies in education, clinical and social psychology. With the publication of her first book, Jean Watson developed the initial ideas of her theory and came up with 10 “carative” factors. Her actual theory was published in 1985, after which she further developed the corresponding nursing curriculum. In those years, Watson also extensively traveled in Asia and Australia while practiced. The prevailing influences in the nursing field at the time were those of Carl Rogers, Florence Nightingale and Leininger. Main psy...
In order to do that the nurse has to be able to incorporate all aspects of nursing into the care. Whether it is caring for physical, cognitive, mental, social, or cultural problems the nursing science and philosophy should always be implemented in the same manor or basis. It is important to understand that these factors can theoretically continue to impact the development of science, including nursing science (Daiski, 2016). It is essential to incorporate all the central concerns of nursing into the nursing practice to be able to provide the necessary care. Daiski stated that it is demonstrated by the four-metaparadigm concepts, which are human being, health, environment, and nursing. It then contains a philosophy based on social justice, so that we are able to comprehend the complications of the narratives our patients tell us so that we are more prone to holistically understand their journeys (Daiski,
Watson first published her theory of caring in 1979 in a book titled, Nursing: Human Science and Caring. Watson and other researchers have built upon this theory and caring theory should continually be evolving as the delivery of patient care evolves. This theory focuses on care between the nurse and the patient. This interaction is defined as setting mutual tasks, how a spiritual force may help the interaction and when caring in the moment of true healing may occur. When the nurse and patient are on the same level spiritually self-awareness and self-discovery occur. There are ten themes identified in this article essential to caring in
According to Kristen Swanson’s theory of caring, caring consists of Knowing, Being with, Doing for, Enabling, and maintaining belief. She believes that the environment and what is in the environment can affect people, either positively or negatively. As a nursing student, I possess the qualities of enabling, doing for, and being with. These qualities are implanted in me via my upbringing, culture, religious belief, and life experience/encounters(my environment). “Enabling” is the nurses’ responsibility to help the make a transition into the unknown.
Watson views the concept of a human being as a person that should be valued, cared for, respected, nurtured, understood, and assisted (Nursing Theories, 2012). Every human being should be treated as a person instead of an object and receive the opportunity to have their distinct needs cared for. Health is viewed as a high level of physical, mental, and social functioning, ability to adapt and maintenance with daily living, and the lack of illness or the efforts that lead to the lack of (Nursing Theories, 2012). Watson’s theory believes that the environment determines the values that influence your behaviors and the goals you wish to pursue. It also influences how well a patient copes with the situation and how the nurse should be supportive and considerate towards the patient. Watson defines nursing as “a human science of persons and human health-illness experiences that are mediated by professional, personal, scientific, esthetic and ethical human transactions” (Nursing Theories, 2012, para. 4). Nursing should be more than just providing medical care, it should establish a relationship and build trust. Watson’s other concepts of her theory include the caring occasion, transpersonal caring, phenomenal field, self, and
“Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken’, said Myrtle Aydelott (Hammarskjold, 2000). Nurses have our patients trust with their lives every day. These patients have needs that must be understood and met, whether; physical, psychological, or emotional. Nurses must provide nonjudgmental care to those in need, regardless of culture, religion, lifestyle choices, financial status, or hues of the human race. To quote Jean Watson, nursing theorist, “I am here to care for others, regardless of where they came from” (Hammarskjold, 2000). I believe that the nursing profession chose me because I have always had a calling to help those in need. Nursing
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring. This theory can be taken into account as one of the most philosophically complicated of existing nursing theories. The Theory of Human Caring, which has also been referred to as the Theory of Transpersonal Caring, is a middle – range explanatory theory. (Fawcett, 2000) The central point of which is on the human component of caring and actual encounter between the client and the caregiver.