Jean Watson's Theory Of Transpersonal Caring PDF

Jean Watson Theory of Transpersonal Caring Department of Nursing Dr. Lolit Avanzado Jean Watson • • An American nurse theorist and nursing professor who is well known for her “Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring or Caring Science” Her study on caring has been integrated into education...

Jean Watson Theory of Transpersonal Caring Department of Nursing Dr. Lolit Avanzado Jean Watson • • An American nurse theorist and nursing professor who is well known for her “Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring or Caring Science” Her study on caring has been integrated into education and patient care to various nursing and healthcare facilities all over the world. Her Concept of Nursing • Nursing involves the application of Art and Human Science through Transpersonal Transaction in order to help the person achieve mind, body and soul harmony. • Watson states that she is attempting to integrate these wounds into my life and work. One of the gifts through suffering was the privilege of experience and receiving my own theory through the care from my husband and loving nurse friends and colleague. 7 Assumptions of the Caring Science 1. Caring can be effectively demonstrated and practiced only interpersonally 2. Caring consist of carative factors that results in the satisfaction of certain human needs. 3. Effective caring promotes health of an individual or family growth 4. Caring responses accept a person not only as he or she is now but as what he or she may become 5. A caring environment is one that offers the developmental potential while allowing the person to choose the best action for himself at a given point in time 6. A science of caring is therefore complementary to the science of curing 7. The practice of caring is central to nursing Major Elements of Caring Theory 1. Transpersonal Caring Relationship • How the nurse goes beyond an objective assessment, showing concerns towards the person subjective and deeper meaning regarding their own health care situation 2. Caring Occasion/Moment • Moment when a nurse and another person come together in such a way that an occasion for human caring is created 3. Carative Factor Carative Factor Caritas Process 1. Formation of human altruistic value system Use loving kindness to extend yourself. Use self-disclosure appropriately to promote a therapeutic alliance with your patient 2. Instillation of faith and hope Provide a connection with the patient that offer purpose and direction when trying to find the meaning of an illness. 3. Cultivation of sensitivity to oneself and to others Learn to accept yourself and other to their full potential. A caring nurse matures into becoming self actualized nurse 4. Develop a helping-trusting human-caring relationships Learn to develop and sustain helping trusting authentic caring relationships through effective communication with your parents 5. Promote and accept positive and negative feelings Support and accept your patients’ feeling. In connecting with your parents to show a willingness to take risks in sharing in the relationship 6. Use creative scientific problem-solving methods for caring decision making. Apply nursing process in symptomatic, scientific problem solving, decision making in providing patient centered care 7. Promoting transpersonal teaching and learning Learn together while educating the patient to acquire self care skills. The patient assumes responsibility for learning 8. Providing for a supportive, protective and/or corrective mental, physical, societal and spiritual environment Create a healing environment at all level for the physical and spiritual self which respects human dignity. 9. Assistance with gratification of human needs Assist with basic needs physical, emotional, and spiritual human needs with intentional caring consciousness, administering human care essentials which potentiate alignment of mind, body spirit, wholeness and unity of being all all aspects of care. 10. Open to mystery and allow miracles to enter Opening and attending to spiritual-mysterious and existential dimensions of one’s own life-death, soul care for self and the one being cared for Application of Theory • • • • • Her model of nursing reflects and embodies the true essence of the nursing profession to this very day It viewed the pt. as the mind-body-spirit entity that needs holistic nursing care One major implication of the theory is in the realm of bedside nursing, where nurses of today have particularly begun to neglect The essence of nursing is in the caring aspect and caring is taking the wholeness, the totality of the pt. into consideration It is every nurse’s duty and obligation to care for his patient not by merely looking into and caring for his physical disease but try to care for the pt. for who he is.