Registered Nurse
Jean Watson 's Theory of Caring
Perry Ballard
NUR/403
February 4, 2013
Carla Hronek
Jean Watson 's Theory of Caring
According to (Watson, 2005), as cited by (Clark, Watson, & Brewer 2009), “This theory/philosophy involves making explicit human caring and relationship-centered caring is a foundational ethic for healing practices; it honors the unity of the whole human being, while also attending to creating a healing environment. Caring-healing modalities and nursing arts reintegrated as essentials to ensure attention to quality of life, inner healing experiences, subjective meaning, and caring practices, which affect patient outcomes and system successes alike. This work places human-to-human-caring as central to professional nursing responsibilities, the role and moral foundation for the profession. Preserving human dignity through human caring and ultimately the measures by which patients evaluate their often-cure dominated experiences” (Watson, 2005, p. 51). Long quotations in APA are formatted differently – see sample APA paper. In short papers you want to avoid long direct quotations – understand your content and use your words when possible. According to (Watson & and Foster, 2003), (as cited by (Clark, Watson, & Brewer 2009), nurses universally appear to be torn between the human caring values and the calling that attracted them to the profession, and the technologically, high paced, task-oriented biomedical practices and institutional demands, heavy patient load, along with outdated industrial practice patterns. (all the blue are direct from your source but credit is not given with “ “ and pg #). Watson believes that healing is directly related to person, nursing, health, and environment.
According to Alligood (2010), the person is a living, growing gestalt that possesses three spheres of being (body, mind, and soul) influenced by the concept of self. (again direct from source with wrong credit – need “ “ and pg #). According to
Perry Ballard
NUR/403
February 4, 2013
Carla Hronek
Jean Watson 's Theory of Caring
According to (Watson, 2005), as cited by (Clark, Watson, & Brewer 2009), “This theory/philosophy involves making explicit human caring and relationship-centered caring is a foundational ethic for healing practices; it honors the unity of the whole human being, while also attending to creating a healing environment. Caring-healing modalities and nursing arts reintegrated as essentials to ensure attention to quality of life, inner healing experiences, subjective meaning, and caring practices, which affect patient outcomes and system successes alike. This work places human-to-human-caring as central to professional nursing responsibilities, the role and moral foundation for the profession. Preserving human dignity through human caring and ultimately the measures by which patients evaluate their often-cure dominated experiences” (Watson, 2005, p. 51). Long quotations in APA are formatted differently – see sample APA paper. In short papers you want to avoid long direct quotations – understand your content and use your words when possible. According to (Watson & and Foster, 2003), (as cited by (Clark, Watson, & Brewer 2009), nurses universally appear to be torn between the human caring values and the calling that attracted them to the profession, and the technologically, high paced, task-oriented biomedical practices and institutional demands, heavy patient load, along with outdated industrial practice patterns. (all the blue are direct from your source but credit is not given with “ “ and pg #). Watson believes that healing is directly related to person, nursing, health, and environment.
According to Alligood (2010), the person is a living, growing gestalt that possesses three spheres of being (body, mind, and soul) influenced by the concept of self. (again direct from source with wrong credit – need “ “ and pg #). According to
Citations: for secondary sources were not correctly formatted. Nor were the long quotations formatted based on APA guidelines. I suggest you keep a copy of the sample APA paper close when writing to assist with formatting future papers. Please understand that we take plagiarism very seriously. I am taking this opportunity as a mentoring moment. I suggest you take my comments deeply to heart and strive to not repeat these errors.