Grand Nursing Theorist Assignment: Dr. Watson's Theory Of Nursing

Grand Nursing Theorist Assignment: Grand Theorist Report Since the days of Florence Nightingale, nurses have strived to provide their patients with the best care possible. Nursing theory was developed by desire and provides a theoretical framework on which the nurses challenge themselves to improve patient experience. Nursing in the twenty first century has taken many different directions by assuming more responsibility, and some have argued that the evolution of the profession has come with a price of caring less. To improve our patient satisfaction scores, the Practice Committee will implement the use of Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring into the clinical nursing practice at the Community Medical Center.

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Watson was born in the 1940s in a small town in the Appalachian Mountains. She graduated with a nursing diploma in 1961 and her bachelor’s degree in 1964. By 1966 she earned a master’s of science degree in nursing in psychiatric and mental health nursing. Throughout her career, Dr. Watson has been an active member of the nursing community, and held various faculty positions including the Dean of Nursing at the University of Colorado. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a past president of the National League for Nursing (McEwen &Wills, 2014). She is a distinguished author, speaker and holds ten honorary doctoral degrees. Her latest endeavor has been to fund the Watson Caring Science Institute. Which is a non-profit organization. Dr. Watson’s Theory of Caring was originally developed in the 1970’s and revised in 1985 and 2005. Watson noted that parts of her theory were derived from the works of Rogers and Nightingale as well as influenced by concepts from psychology and philosophy (McEwen & Wills, 2014). Revision to her work in 2005, Dr. Watson contributed two major life changes which broadened her approach to her theory of caring, the death of her husband of 37 years in 1998, and the loss of her left eye in an accident in 1997 (Short &Williams,

This study involved nurses and patients undergoing HD treatments. The results of the study showed the education intervention was practical and feasible. The nurses in the study merged their caring behaviors towards the HD patients. The study showed the patients perceived the nurses caring behaviors increase as a result of the intervention. It was determined that the study would need to be researched further with a larger population group in order to fully examine the effects (Delmas, O’Reilly, Iglesias, Cara, & Burnier, 2016).

Integration and Application of Theory into Practice Nursing is a science of caring and Watsons ten carative factors provide the framework to integrate and apply the theory into practice. Nurses need to be thoughtful and cognizant on how they view the caring relationship between the nurse and patient. The nurses of the Community Medical will meet monthly to review and reflect on Watsons ten carative factors to strengthen their knowledge on the theory content and how it relates to their own practice. The nurses should be able to respond to the self - reflecting questions put forth from the review.

1. In your practice of nursing how can you show an example of the carative