Jean Watson- Human Caring-2

Question 1

Jean Watson (June 10, 1940 – present) is an American nurse theorist and nursing professor who
is well known for her “

Answer 1

Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring.”

Question 2

Where was Jean Watson born

Answer 2

small town of Welch, West
Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains.

Question 3

Jean Watson’s first name

Answer 3

Margaret Jean Harmon

Question 4

what two
personal life-altering events contributed to writing her third book, Postmodern Nursing and
Beyond.

Answer 4

Her injury which caused her to lose her left eye and the passing of her husband in the following year

Question 5

concerned on how nurses express care to their
patients. Her theory stresses humanistic aspects of nursing as they intertwine with scientific
knowledge and nursing practice.

Answer 5

Watson’s Philosophy and Science of Caring

Question 6

Watson’s 10 carative factors wherein The first three factors form the “philosophical foundation” for the science of caring, and the
remaining seven come from that foundation.

Answer 6

(1) forming humanistic-altruistic value systems,
(2) instilling faith-hope,
(3) cultivating a sensitivity to self and others,
(4) developing a helping-trust relationship,
(5) promoting an expression of feelings,
(6) using problem-solving for decision-making,
(7) promoting teaching-learning,
(8) promoting a supportive environment,
(9) assisting with gratification of human needs, and
(10) allowing for existential-phenomenological forces.

Question 7

the essence of nursing and connotes responsiveness between the nurse and
the person; the nurse co-participates with the person.

Answer 7

Caring

Question 8

According to Watson’s theory, “Nursing is concerned with promoting health, preventing
illness, caring for the sick, and restoring health.”