Nursing is a discipline devoted to caring, health, and healing, says jennifer watson. A nurse enters into " the life space or phenomenal field of another person," she says. The nurse responds in such a way that the person being cared for has a release of feelings.
Nursing is a discipline devoted to caring, health, and healing, says jennifer watson. A nurse enters into " the life space or phenomenal field of another person," she says. The nurse responds in such a way that the person being cared for has a release of feelings.
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Nursing is a discipline devoted to caring, health, and healing, says jennifer watson. A nurse enters into " the life space or phenomenal field of another person," she says. The nurse responds in such a way that the person being cared for has a release of feelings.
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JEAN WATSON Importance of caring-healing consciousness within the human-
Transpersonal Caring Theory environment field
Consciousness as energy Caring is independent of curing Phenomenal field/ unitary consciousness Advocates the postmodern view of science as Advanced caring-healing modalities/ nursing arts indistinguishable from art and a vision of nursing as a discipline devoted to caring, health, and healing Nursing Metaparadigm: Watson Person Philosophical Background: • A fully functional integrated self greater than Transcendental phenomenology and different from the sum of his or her parts Philosophical belief: • Transcendent nature of being human o Whitehead • Connectedness of all of existence o Kierkegaard Health and Illness o deChardin Illness Psychologist: perceived state Carl Rogers rather than presence of disease Nurse theorists: Can result from a • Nightingale troubled inner soul • Henderson Can lead to disease • Leininger • Health • Rogers Refers to unity and • Eastern views on the harmony within the mind, body, and importance of mind/body harmony soul Associated with the Major Conceptual Elements of the theory: degree of congruence between the I. Transpersonal Caring Relationship self as perceived and the self as experienced • Human to human connectedness Environment occurring in a nurse-patient encounter • Not bounded by time and space • Considered in the context of a human- • A nurse enters into “ the life space environment field (subject-object-person- or phenomenal field of another person and is able to environment-nature-universe) detect the person’s condition of being, feels this Nursing condition within self, and responds in such a way Nurse that the person being cared for has a release of • Nurse-noun and verb feelings, thought, and tension” • To nurse- carried out through human care and caring (moral ideal of nursing) II. Ten Carative Factors Protect, enhance, and 1. forming a humanistic-altruistic system of preserve humanity values Help another gain 2. enabling and sustaining faith-hope self-knowledge, control and self- 3. being sensitive to self and others healing 4. developing a helping-trusting, caring Nursing relationship • Both scientific and 5. promoting and accepting the expression of artistic positive and negative feelings and emotions • As a profession, 6. engaging in creative, individualized, problem- “nursing exists in order to sustain caring, healing, solving caring processes and health where, and when, they are threatened 7. promoting transpersonal teaching-learning biologically, institutionally, environmentally, or 8. attending to supportive, protective, and/or politically, by local, national, or global influences” corrective mental, physical, societal, and spiritual environments • The physical body is cared for, but the care is never separated from the 9. assisting with gratification of basic human context of the unity of the mind, body, and spirit needs while preserving human dignity and wholeness Nursing interventions/ 10. allowing for, and being open to, existential- human care processes phenomenological and spiritual dimensions of Related through the goals: caring and healing that cannot be fully o Mental- explained scientifically through Western spiritual growth for self and Medicine others o Find Caring occasion/caring moment meaning in one’s own existence • Whenever the nurse and others come and experiences together with their unique life stories and o Discover phenomenal field in human to human inner power and control transaction o Potentiate instances of transcendence and Dimensions of the theory: self-healing Embodied spirit Requires a wide scope of knowledge of: Expanded views of self and person • Hu man behaviour and human responses to actual or potential health problems • In dividual needs • Ho w to respond to other’s needs • Ou r strengths and limitations • W ho the other person is…strengths and limitations, the meaning of the situation for him/her • Ho w to comfort, offer compassion and empathy