Module 3 (Week 4 - Jean Watson)

Question 1

Human Caring Theory
— She continued her nursing education at the University of Colorado. Earned her doctorate in educational psychology and counseling in 1973.
— Joined the School of Nursing faculty at the University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center.
— Watson and her colleagues established the Center for Human Caring at the University of Colorado.
— The Watson Caring Science Institute (WCSI) was established from groundwork laid by the Center for Human Caring. WCSI exists as a nonprofit organization devoted to advancing caring science.
— She has authored 11 books (Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring), shared authorship of 9 books, and published countless articles in
nursing and interdisciplinary journals.

Answer 1

Jean Watson

Margaret Jean Harman Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN

Question 2

it is a “special kind of
human care relationship—a union with another person— high regard for the whole person and their being-in- the-world”

Answer 2

“transpersonal caring relationship”

Question 3

Ten Caritas Processes

Answer 3

1. The Practice of Loving-Kindness and Equanimity (Mental
   Calmness) Toward Self and Other as Foundational to Caritas
   Consciousness.
2. Being Authentically Present: Enabling, Sustaining, and Honoring
   the Faith, Hope, and Deep Belief System and the Inner-Subjective
   World of Self/Other.
3. Cultivation of One’s Own Spiritual Practices Going Beyond Ego-Self.
4. Development and Sustaining a Helping-Trust Caring Relationship.
5. Being Present to, and Supportive of, the Expression of
   Positive and Negative Feelings.
6. Creative Use of Self and All Ways of Knowing as Part of the
   Caring Process; Engage in the Artistry of Caritas Nursing.
7. Engage in Genuine Teaching-Learning Experience that Attends to Unity of Being and Subjective Meaning—Attempting to Stay Within the Other’s Frame of Reference.
8. Creating a Healing Environment at All Levels.
9. Administering Sacred Nursing Acts of Caring- Healing by Tending to Basic Human Needs.
10. Opening and Attending to Spiritual/Mysterious and Existential
    Unknowns of Life-Death.

Question 4

7 ASSUMPTIONS OF CARING AS A SCIENCE

Answer 4

1. CARING CAN BE EFFECTIVELY DEMONSTRATED AND PRACTICED ONLY
   INTERPERSONALLY.
2. CARING CONSISTS OF CARATIVE FACTORS THAT RESULT IN THE SATISFACTION OF
   CERTAIN HUMAN NEED.
3. EFFECTIVE CARING PROMOTES HEALTH 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 DEVELOPMENT OF 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

Question 5

Unity of mind/body/spirit/nature

Answer 5

Personhood (Human Being, Person, Life, Self)

Question 6

— “Unity and harmony within the mind, body, and soul”
—“Illness is not necessarily disease; [instead it is a]
subjective turmoil or disharmony within a person’s inner
self or soul at some level of disharmony within the spheres
of the person (mind, body, and soul)”.

Answer 6

Health

Question 7

“The caring science is not only for sustaining
humanity, but also for sustaining the planet.
She says that “healing spaces can be used to help others transcend illness, pain, and suffering, “emphasizing the environment and person connection: “when the nurse enters the patient’s
room, a magnetic field of expectation is created”

Answer 7

Environment

Question 7

The word nurse is both a noun and a verb. To her, nursing consists of “knowledge, thought, values, philosophy, commitment, and action, with some
degree of passion”

Answer 7

Nursing