Philosophy And Science of Caring (Jean Watson) PDF

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!