Margaret Jean Watson Flashcards
What is Margaret Jean Watsons’s philosophy?
Philosophy and Science of Caring
Where is Jean Watson born?
Southern West Virginia
Give the timeline of education of Jean Watson.
1964 - BSN
1966 - MS in Psychiatric – Mental Health Nsg
1973 – PhD in Educational Psychology and Counseling from University of Colorado
Human being to be valued, cared for, respected, nurtured, understood, assisted, and viewed according to the client’s development & the conflicts arising
Person
Society with all its influences, provides the values that determine how one should behave and what goals one should strive toward
Environment
Unity and harmony with in the mind, body, and soul
Health
Three elements of health according to Watson
- A higher level of over-all physical, mental & social functioning
- A general adaptive- maintenance level of daily functioning; and
- The absence of illness (or the presence of efforts that lead to its absence)
Providing holistic health care, a human science of people & human health-illness experiences that are mediated by professional, personal, scientific, aesthetic & ethical human care transactions
Nursing
Major Assumption of Watson: Caring can be demonstrated and practiced only ___________
interpersonally
Major Assumption of Watson: Caring consists of ___________ that result in the satisfaction of certain human needs
carative factors
Major Assumption of Watson: Caring is more _________ than curing.
health ogenic
Forming humanistic-altruistic value system
- occurs early
- can be influenced by educators
- examine personal and cultures’ views and beliefs
- extend oneself
Instillation of faith-hope
- role of nurse in nurse-patient interrelationships
- help client adopt health seeking behavior
- suggest and support positively
Cultivating sensitivity to self and others
- recognize feelings and sensitivity
- self actualization/self acceptance
Development of a helping-trust relationship
- establish rapport and caring
- through congruence, empathy, nonpossessive warmth, effective communication
Promotion & acceptance of the expression of positive & negative feelings
- share and prepare for negative and positive feelings
Systematic use of the scientific problem-solving method for decision making
- for research/scientific knowledge
- problem-solving approach to nursing care
Promotion of interpersonal teaching-learning
- give info and alternatives
- assign responsibility to client
- client self care/personal growth
Provision for supportive, protective & corrective mental, physical, sociocultural & spiritual environment
- clients’s coping abilities
- understand person’s environment
- provide comfort, privacy, safety, clean, aesthetic
Assisting with gratification of human needs
- needs of nurse and client
- lower order to higher
Allowance for existential-phenomenological forces
- understand individual perceptions from experiences
The first three carative factors are ___________ while the remaining seven ___________–
philosophical foundation of science
springs from first three