Jean Watson: A Caring Moment Christie M. Ishman RN NUR/403 Theories and Models of Nursing Practice April 4‚ 2011 Stephanie Merck‚ APRN‚ MS‚ CS Background of theory The caring theorist‚ Jean Watson‚ first developed her theory and published the philosophy and science of caring in 1979 (Current Nursing‚ 2011). She describes nursing as a process of caring not curing‚ and that it is effectively practiced and demonstrated interpersonally only. Her theory also “suggests that caring is
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has pioneers who have done the research to not only present the perspective‚ but to also prove how beneficial it is. John B. Watson is one of the great pioneers who created and popularized the behavioral perspective. He had many followers who believed in what he said‚ including B.F. Skinner. Although Skinner was truly influenced by Watson‚ he had his own ideas and theories that he later proved to be extremely persuasive. With the domination of the behavioral perspective‚ there also came skepticism
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The Theories of Lenininger and Watson in Nursing SUNY Empire State College July 14‚ 2013 As the healthcare system undergoes major transformations and the role of the professional nurse is expanding‚ having a definition of the goals and responsibilities of a nurse relative to other professionals within the healthcare community is vital. Nursing theories establish the scope and the significance of a nurse’s role as a healthcare provider. They provide a universal description of nursing that can
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Caring for a Stranger: An Example of Watson ’s Caring Theory I never thought that I would find myself along a desert highway taking care of a man that I never knew. But early in my career this is exactly where I found myself. This is an example of displaying Watson’s Human Caring Theory‚ and how I took care of a man‚ in the middle of nowhere‚ with little more than a bottle of water and a pair of stolen gloves. My future husband and I were driving home from Tucson‚ Arizona to Algona‚ Iowa‚ but
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communicative medium because they are easier to follow and learn by heart‚ after which they can be combined with other genres such as songs and dances. Besides that‚ the exploitation of genres is also evident as we study on the pragmatics and structural cognition of a poem. Pragmatics is the study on the meaning behind the context; later in this research‚ the study will reveal the relationship between them as to how it affects the understanding of the cohort today. Furthermore‚ the paper will also discuss
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Watson and Crick discovering DNA Watson and Cricks discovery of DNA was important for many reasons because DNA made it possible to use genetic screening to identify which patients have ‘faulty’ genes which will lead to genetic illness such as Alzheimer’s. Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA in 1953. A reason that it was important was because it has provided an explanation for diseases and conditions that the germ theory cannot explain‚ for instance‚ cancer. This was important because
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Watson and his wife felt that children were small adults and should therefore be treated like adults. He felt children should not be shown psychical affection while in public‚ but at home one should kiss them on the forehead‚ pamper them to show that you care. He warned that a mothers’ love is used as a dangerous instrument‚ when gets tempted to pet one’s own child. In addition‚ Watson felt that children were made‚ and not born a certain way. Therefore‚ the parent should be careful in how they raise
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strong appeal directly to logos and indirectly to pathos. Also‚ Paul Watson‚ in his essay “Loving Nature with a Gun‚” (2006) addresses the topic of animal treatment. The Canadian animal rights and environmental activist and former Sierra Club National Director aggressively argue that the Sierra Club‚ an animal and environmentalist organization‚ is portraying an inappropriate and hypocritical image of the corporation. Watson relies on a strong appeal to pathos in the form of personal opinion as
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this country; however‚ James Watson stands out as a truly important contributor. James Watson stands is an influential to shaping molecular biology because of his discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA‚ intelligence‚ and ability to adapt to different scientific fields. James Dewey Watson is the son of Jean Mitchell and James D. Watson. James Watson was born on April 6th in 1928. (James) Watson was born in Chicago‚ Illinois. (James) As a young child Watson read the World Almanac and retained
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Watson Case Study #1 How powerful is Watson? Describe its technology. Why does it require so much powerful hardware? Watson has the ability to go far beyond responding to simple commands it has the ability to understand language‚ search millions of data sets within three seconds and learn from its mistakes and its successes. It has 15 terabytes of RAM‚ 2‚880 processor cores and operates at 80 teraflops. It needs this much hardware to process thousands or algorithms that were programmed and can
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