7-PHILOSOPHY & SCIENCE OF CARING-JEAN WATSON.pdf
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MARGARET JEAN WATSON MARGARET JEAN WATSON Born in Southern West Virginia Attained BS Nursing at Boulder Campus (1964) MS in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing in 1966 at the Health Sciences campus Ph.D. In educational psychology and counselling in 1973 Distinguished Professor an...
MARGARET JEAN WATSON MARGARET JEAN WATSON Born in Southern West Virginia Attained BS Nursing at Boulder Campus (1964) MS in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing in 1966 at the Health Sciences campus Ph.D. In educational psychology and counselling in 1973 Distinguished Professor and Director of Center of Human Caring School of Nursing Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing Had received numerous other awards and honors Human being is a valued person in and of him to be cared for, respected, nurtured, understood and assisted Human as greater than and different from, the sum of his parts Provides the values that determine how one should behave and what goals one should strive toward Values affected by change in the social, cultural and spiritual arenas which affect perception of the person Refers to unity and harmony within the mind, body and soul 3 elements: - High level of over all physical,mental and social functioning -General adaptive-maintenance level of daily functioning -Absence of illness Having to move educationally in the two areas of stress and developmental conflicts to provide holistic health care which she believes is central to the practice of caring in nursing Caring can be effectively demonstrated and practiced only interpersonally Effective caring promotes health and individual or family growth Caring responses accept a person not only as he or she is now but as what he or she may become A caring environment is one that offers the development of potential while allowing the person to choose the best action for himslef or herself at a given point in time Caring is more “ healthogenic” than is curing Practice of caring is central to nursing Formation of a humanistic altruistic system of values Instillation of faith-hope Cultivation of sensitivity to one’s self and to others Development of a helping-trusting, human caring relationship Promotion and acceptance of the expression of positive and negative feelings Systematic use of creative problem solving caring process Promotion of transpersonal teaching- learning Provision of a supportive, protective and corrective mental, physical, societal and spiritual environment Assistance with gratification of human needs Allowance for existential- phenomenological-spiritual forces Thank You!
