JEAN WATSON Flashcards
Central to all helping professions; enables persons to create meaning in their lives
CARING
Theory of Jean Watson
THEORY OF TRANSOERSONAL CARING
The academy who named Dr. Watson a living legend
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSING
She founded Watson Caring Science Institute
JEAN WATSON
Reason for creating the theory
attending to and helping to sustain human dignity, humanity, and wholeness in the midst of threats and crises of life and death
The goal of Jean Watson’s Theory
PRESERVATION OF HUMAN DIGNITY
Six C’s of Caring in Nursing
COMPASSION
COMPETENCE
CONFIDENCE
CONSCIENCE
COMMITMENT
COMPORTMENT
Awareness of one’s relationship w/ others, sharing their joys, sorrows, pain, and accomplishment. Participation in the experience of another.
COMPASSION
Having the knowledge, judgment, skills, energy, experience, & motivation to respond adequately to others within the demands of professional responsibilities
COMPETENCE
Quality that fosters trusting relationships. Comfort with self, client, and family.
CONFIDENCE
Morals, ethics, and an informed sense of right and wrong. Awareness of personal responsibility
CONSCIENCE
Convergence between one’s desires and obligations and the deliberate choice to act in accordance with them.
COMMITMENT
Presenting oneself as someone who gives respect and demands respect. Appropriate demeanor, dress, and language, that is in harmony with a caring presence
COMPORTMENT
It means taking the time to nurture oneself
CARING FOR SELF
Ways of Caring for oneself
BALANCED DIET
REGULAR EXERCISE
ADEQUATE REST & SLEEP
RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
MEDITATION & PRAYERS