Jean Watson Caring
Description of Theory
In today’s nursing profession, nursing care is aimed at caring for the needs of a machine rather than considering the needs of the patient attached to the machine. According to Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Care, “Nursing is concerned with promoting health, preventing illness, caring for the sick, and restoring health (Nursing Theory, 2016).” Watson believes that caring is the essence of nursing practice, and promotes health changes. The profession of nursing requires that nurses show compassion to patients within their care to promote health and wellness, prevent illness and restore health. Watson’s theoretical model states that care should be implemented by practicing nurses. Her theory gives nurses the opportunity …show more content…
Her assumptions are that caring can be used to practice effectively on an interpersonal level. Watson’s caring model consists of carative factors that help meet certain human needs. Caring is central to nursing, in other words, caring promotes health and growth according to Watson. Moreover, a caring environment aids in self-health promotion allowing the individual to decide on the best health practice for themselves (Gonzalo, 2011). Watson describes caring as being “healthogenic” in that it is complementary to the science of curing which “integrates biophysical knowledge with knowledge of human behavior to generate or promote health and to provide ministrations to those who are ill (Gonzalo, 2011).” Watson believes that it critical that health professional implement caring ideals and ideology into practice because it has the ability to affect human development, “cure techniques”, and proliferation of radical treatment (McEwan et al. (2014) p. …show more content…
The works of Watson is well known in nursing and have been implemented in staff members in the clinical settings and nurse educators in nursing programs. Many disciplines who implemented Watson’s theory of human caring created their own practice model and are using the theory of human caring as their guiding principle when interacting with others. In addition, Watson’s science of caring in nursing education is used worldwide in several countries such as Scandinavia, Japan and throughout the United States within nursing curricula (McEwan et al. (2014) p. 186). Nationwide, caring projects derived from Watson’s theory of human caring have been carried out to help care for victims that were overcoming natural disasters, those who are homeless and veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan (McEwan et al. (2014) p. 186). Nurses who adopt Watson’s theory of caring are reminded that their primary purpose is to provide direct patients care to help them heal, give comfort and to connect with them in emotional and spiritual
In today’s nursing profession, nursing care is aimed at caring for the needs of a machine rather than considering the needs of the patient attached to the machine. According to Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Care, “Nursing is concerned with promoting health, preventing illness, caring for the sick, and restoring health (Nursing Theory, 2016).” Watson believes that caring is the essence of nursing practice, and promotes health changes. The profession of nursing requires that nurses show compassion to patients within their care to promote health and wellness, prevent illness and restore health. Watson’s theoretical model states that care should be implemented by practicing nurses. Her theory gives nurses the opportunity …show more content…
Her assumptions are that caring can be used to practice effectively on an interpersonal level. Watson’s caring model consists of carative factors that help meet certain human needs. Caring is central to nursing, in other words, caring promotes health and growth according to Watson. Moreover, a caring environment aids in self-health promotion allowing the individual to decide on the best health practice for themselves (Gonzalo, 2011). Watson describes caring as being “healthogenic” in that it is complementary to the science of curing which “integrates biophysical knowledge with knowledge of human behavior to generate or promote health and to provide ministrations to those who are ill (Gonzalo, 2011).” Watson believes that it critical that health professional implement caring ideals and ideology into practice because it has the ability to affect human development, “cure techniques”, and proliferation of radical treatment (McEwan et al. (2014) p. …show more content…
The works of Watson is well known in nursing and have been implemented in staff members in the clinical settings and nurse educators in nursing programs. Many disciplines who implemented Watson’s theory of human caring created their own practice model and are using the theory of human caring as their guiding principle when interacting with others. In addition, Watson’s science of caring in nursing education is used worldwide in several countries such as Scandinavia, Japan and throughout the United States within nursing curricula (McEwan et al. (2014) p. 186). Nationwide, caring projects derived from Watson’s theory of human caring have been carried out to help care for victims that were overcoming natural disasters, those who are homeless and veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan (McEwan et al. (2014) p. 186). Nurses who adopt Watson’s theory of caring are reminded that their primary purpose is to provide direct patients care to help them heal, give comfort and to connect with them in emotional and spiritual