Moment of Caring: My Watson 's Theory Moment
Nursing is not just a profession where a nurse uses the latest and the greatest of medical advancements to provide the best of care for his or her patients. The use of electronics and ever advancing technology seems to have pushed the “personal” aspect of nursing to the background. Nurses today have to preform a complex balancing act to incorporate both the science and the spirituality of nursing to provide the best care for their patients. Nurses are to care for the “inherent respect, worthy of honor, high regard” the dignity of our patients. (Parse, 2010, p. 257) Watson’s Theory of Human Caring emphasizes the need for nurses to create a healing environment by finding the “caring moment” and
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Simultaneously the relationship transcends the two subjectivities, connecting the other higher dimensions of being and a higher/deeper consciousness that accesses the universal field and planes of inner wisdom; the human spirit realm.” (Jesse, 2010, p. 121). The caring moment is the moment where the nurse and the patient actually spend a meaningful period of time together. This time can be used to connect in many ways; the nursing passing on information and interacting with the patient during the assimilation and interpretation of that information or time spent together for the patient to relay and express feeling and concerns about any possible subject. “This time is a timeless moment that exists on a deeper level.” (Holopainen, Nyström, & Kasén, 2014, p. 51) The nurse should be open to these caring moments and look for them whenever caring for a patient because each moment no only affects the patient but the nurse as …show more content…
(Jesse, 2010) I had to build a helping-trusting, human caring relationship by presenting myself to her as a competent caring individual who was not going to make judgments about her or the situation. (Ozan, Okumus, & Lash, 2015, p. 33) I had to explain to her all of the procedures; how they were to be done and why, allowing time to answer all of her questions. I gave her options for care and encouraged her to make decisions about her care, as much as possible. I respected her worth, dignity and rights as a human being; she was my priority, not the rape kit, and whatever she decided was “okay”. (Lachman,
Nursing is the core of care. The essential is not communication via words or language, but care that is imparted by sincere interest is interdenominational and transcends culture, language, and treatments. Relational consciousness is a significant component of a compassionate nursing practice. Doane, & Varcoe, (2015) state that relational awareness encompasses recognition that individuals are situated and constituted through cultural, interpersonal, social, political and emotional processes. Operating from the center of which we are, with insight and awareness is essential to phenomenological nursing practice. I will be exploring my personal values and beliefs
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’
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
According to the author, nursing practice needs to stay current with technological advances while keeping its identity as a patient focused profession. Nurses use technology to improve care from a patient?s perspective, both in quality of care and cost. At the same time, nurses must learn to balance technological knowledge with personal skills, thus providing optimum clinical care while maintaining a person-focused relationship with the patient.
Caring is the biggest aspect in the nursing field. Aspiring nurses choose to become nurses because they want to care for people in ways that most professions cannot do. Without caring nursing would not be the field it is today. The culture of caring involves intervening programs that help to build caring behaviors among nurses. As nurses become stressed and become down on their life it has shown that caring for oneself before others is key in caring for patients. Lastly, throughout the years many theorists have proven that caring has come from many concepts and ideas that relate directly to ICU nursing.
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
Within the nursing situation, the shared lived experience of caring enhances personhood (Alligood 2014). Boykin and Schoenhofer’s meaning of caring is being lived out moment to moment; and it is in the intimacy of caring that respect for self and respect for others are the values that confirm personhood (Alligood 2014).
Nursing encompasses the compassionate, holistic, and virtuous care that nurses deliver to patients, families, and communities in order to assist with achieving optimal health and wellness or attaining comfort and acceptance. Compassionate care encompasses the empathy and drive to help others that the nursing profession pos...
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...
Theory evaluation often generates new thoughts, strengths, and weaknesses about the theory being examined (McEwen, 2014). Evaluating a theory is important to better understand the structure and its need for use in practice or research. In “Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring” by Jean Watson she believes that nurses hold an impact that is strongly based on the caring relationship between a nurse and a patient. The theory focuses on how nurses care for their patients, and how that care may help promote, prevent, or restore a patient’s health. Watson states “caring is essential in nursing, and requires the nurse to have a deep connection to the spirit within the self and to the spirit within the patient” (Lachman, 2012, p.112).
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
Jean Watson is a well-respected American nursing theorist who created the Theory on Human Caring. Watson’s concept on caring for a human being is simple, yet has much depth and meaning, and holds strong for nurses to work with compassion, wisdom, love, and caring. The Theory on Human Caring is necessary for every nurse, as it is our job to care for others in a genuine and sensitive way. The theory is extensive; its core foundation is based on nine concepts all interrelated and primarily focused on a nurse giving a patient care with compassion, wisdom, love, and caring (Watson, J., 1999). The nine essential aspects consist of: values, faith-hope, sensitivity, trust, feelings, decision-making, teaching-learning, environment, and human needs. Watson also created the Caritas Process consists of ten different ways of giving care:
One must have the full desire to help and care for people in order to have an enjoyable career as a nurse. Nurses are known for the care and compassion shown to the patients and this is comforting for both patients and their families. Caring for a patient can raise their spirits and can inspire a better outlook on their situation. As a nurse, I want to care for all my patients with the hope of improving their health and outlook on their life. I chose Jean Watson because she understands that caring is the core of nursing and believes caring promotes a better health than only performing medical care. She was the first grand theorist that focused on the aspect of caring for the patient while also caring for yourself as the nurse. Watson’s theory
The purpose of this paper is an overview of Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring. This theory can be taken into account as one of the most philosophicaly complicated of existent nursing theories. The Theory of Human Caring, which also has been reffered to as the Theory of Transpersonal Caring, is middle – range explanatory theory. (Fawccett, 2000) The central point of which is on the human component of caring and actual encounter between the client and the caregiver. Jean Watson has stated that her work was motivated by her search of a new meaning to the world of nursing and patient care. “ I felt a dissonnance between nursing’s (meta) paradigm of caring-healing and health, and medicines’s (meta) paradigm of diagnosis and treatment, and concentration on disease and pathology”. (Watson, 1997,p.49)
Watson’s Theory of Transpersonal Caring is considered a philosophy; therefore, it is very broad and general in scope. Included in the theory are ten caritas the nurse should practice promoting a meaningful nurse-patient relationship (Sitzman & Wright Eichelberger, 2017).