Jean Watson's Theory Of Caring
Watson’s theory of caring and applying it to practice
Jean Watson is from the Appalachian Mountain region of West Virginia. She attended the Lewis Gale School of Nursing, graduating in 1961. She went on to obtain her bachelor’s degree in 1964 and went on to eventually obtain her PhD in educational psychology and counseling in 1973. Dr. Watson served as Dean of Nursing at the University Health Sciences Center and was the President of the National League for Nursing and is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (Nursing Theory, 2013).
Summary
Caring is defined as “someone or something that shows kindness and concern for others” (Your Dictionary, 2015). Dr. Jean Watson stated that caring is central to nursing and caring is a science. …show more content…
Furthermore, caring has four key notions: human being, health, environment/society, and nursing (Nursing Theory, 2013). The nurse has to first care about the person they are in charge of caring for by caring about them at the rudimentary level. From there we can involve ourselves into the health problems the individual is having. Next is the environment or society the person is from. There are some societies that view nurses as a maid and not part of the healthcare team. And finally, the last key feature is being the nurse. This is being part of the healthcare team with an integral and necessary part of the overall care of the patient. Without these three features meshing together, the patient’s care may suffer and the art of caring will go to the …show more content…
What first started as mundane and a necessity of nursing school, turns out to be necessary in all parts of the nursing profession regardless of the nurse’s area of expertise. When we’re a new nurse, we learn to write out the nursing process and nursing care plan on paper because that was all there was available at the time. We learn, over time, the nursing process becomes easier and something we don’t have to think about as much. We learn to use evidence-based studies in our practice of caring. We depend on each other in our professional practice to assist when we are in a period of a staffing shortage to discussing the healthcare reform (Roussel,
Jean Watson is from the Appalachian Mountain region of West Virginia. She attended the Lewis Gale School of Nursing, graduating in 1961. She went on to obtain her bachelor’s degree in 1964 and went on to eventually obtain her PhD in educational psychology and counseling in 1973. Dr. Watson served as Dean of Nursing at the University Health Sciences Center and was the President of the National League for Nursing and is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (Nursing Theory, 2013).
Summary
Caring is defined as “someone or something that shows kindness and concern for others” (Your Dictionary, 2015). Dr. Jean Watson stated that caring is central to nursing and caring is a science. …show more content…
Furthermore, caring has four key notions: human being, health, environment/society, and nursing (Nursing Theory, 2013). The nurse has to first care about the person they are in charge of caring for by caring about them at the rudimentary level. From there we can involve ourselves into the health problems the individual is having. Next is the environment or society the person is from. There are some societies that view nurses as a maid and not part of the healthcare team. And finally, the last key feature is being the nurse. This is being part of the healthcare team with an integral and necessary part of the overall care of the patient. Without these three features meshing together, the patient’s care may suffer and the art of caring will go to the …show more content…
What first started as mundane and a necessity of nursing school, turns out to be necessary in all parts of the nursing profession regardless of the nurse’s area of expertise. When we’re a new nurse, we learn to write out the nursing process and nursing care plan on paper because that was all there was available at the time. We learn, over time, the nursing process becomes easier and something we don’t have to think about as much. We learn to use evidence-based studies in our practice of caring. We depend on each other in our professional practice to assist when we are in a period of a staffing shortage to discussing the healthcare reform (Roussel,