sick‚ or healthy. Jean Watson’s theory describes caring as a mutual‚ reciprocal‚ spiritual‚ force connecting both patient and nurse to facilitate self-discovery and awareness (King‚ 2016). Patients deserve to be cared for by their personality outside the hospital walls not the diagnosis they earned after entering. Throughout this paper the definition of caring will be described through words‚ actions and art. Caring from My Eyes From the eyes of a new nurse my
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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
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The theory of human caring started in 1975 and continues to evolve. Jean Watson is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors. She “holds the only endowed chair in caring science in the United States. For this reason‚ Watson explains‚ she felt obligated to explore the development of nursing as a caring science” (Davidhizar‚ 2005‚ p. 314). Her research is in the area of human caring and loss. She published her theory in 1988. She believed a liberal arts background
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Human caring‚ according to Watson‚ is based on human values such as "kindness‚ concern‚ and love of self and others." She differentiates altruism from self-sacrifice and describes it as a fullness of being that allows the nurse to be authentically present with clients. Watson states that a humanistic-altruistic value system begins early in life but continues to be influenced through interactions with parents‚ family‚ friends‚ and others‚ including nurse educators. Furthermore‚ she asserts that such
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Continuing eduCation occupational health Nursing Practice through the human Caring Lens by Dianne L. Noel‚ RN‚ BSN‚ COHN-S/CM‚ COHN(c) a bstraCt Many health care and academic centers have adopted Watson’s Theory of Human Caring as their guiding principle; the theory is also used in other disciplines‚ such as library science. Human caring theory offers occupational health nurses a structure that not only defines a focus for practice‚ but also provides a basis for moral and philosophical
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Community Based Nursing Community health nursing is defined as a synthesis of nursing and public health practice applied to promoting and preserving the health of populations‚ according to the ANA in 2000. As an R.N. in the ICU hospital setting‚ I have not come across the terms community based nursing and public health nursing often. Community health nursing is a synthesis of nursing practice and public health practice applied in promoting and preserving the health of populations. Since Community
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING NCM 101 COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING Health Promotion and Public Health Health • A State of complete physical‚ mental and social well- being‚ not merely an absence of disease or infirmity (WHO‚ 1948). • A State of being well and using every power the individual possesses to the fullest extent (Nightingale‚ 1969). • Optimum Level of Functioning (OLOF) Determinants of Health (World Health Organization) • The health of individuals and communities are‚ to a large
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Community Health Nursing: Definitions: 1) World Health Organization: a. Special field of nursing that combines skills of nursing public health… b. Function as part of total public health program for: i. Promotion of health ii. Improvement of condition iii.Rehabilitation of illness and disability Jacobsen a. Learned practice discipline with ultimate goal of contributing as individuals to promote client’s optimum level of functioning through teaching and delivery of care Dr. Ruth B. Freeman a. CHN
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than cure”‚ population health is the approach that looks at the broader picture of developing and maintaining a realistic and culturally acceptable health plan for the Australian Aboriginal communities. Rather than merely addressing the management of diseases‚ population health goes deeper by aiming to manage the factors that may have caused or developed the diseases‚ and ensure that the World Health Organization’s (cited in Queensland Health 2012‚ p. 1) definition of health as “a state of complete
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assessment structured? Watson points out that nursing process contains the same steps as the scientific research process. They both try to solve a problem. Both provide a framework for decisionmaking. Assessment phase is a opportunity for Formation of a Humanistic-altruistic system of values‚ Instillation of faith-hope‚ Cultivation of sensitivity to one’s self and to others andDevelopment of a helping-trusting‚ human caring relationship Watson’s theory of caring insists that a holistic
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