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CRRN
Associate Professor of Nursing
UNC Greensboro
ddkautz@uncg.edu
Practice/Clinical
Nightingale to Watson:
Nursing Quality, Research,
and Caring
Coming of Age
32nd International Association for Human Caring
Conference
th
San
Antonio,
Texas
June
4
, 2011
Donald D. Kautz, RN, PhD,
CNE,
CRRN
Associate Professor of Nursing
UNC Greensboro
ddkautz@uncg.edu
Objectives
1.
Apply Nightingales philosophy &
Watson's science to quality, research, and
caring in our everyday practice.
Nightingale's philosophy, research and
practice transformed hospitals and nursing.
Watson's evolution of caritas science
assists
each
of us to see the
connectedness
between nursing quality,
research, and our care.
2.
Illustrate Watsons tenets through
patient
scenarios and story telling.
Nurse Educator
Nurse Educator
Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 223-226
Copyright 2007 Wolteers Kluwer
Health I
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Nightingales Legacy
Statistics Legacy
McDonald, 2010
Nightingale
Was a passionate statistician
Belief based on her faith in a God of order
Used statistics to indicate serious problems,
assist in policy making, monitor outcomes
Legacy for Nursing
Statistics is a required course in BSN programs
Even though.....
We are all taught, we must show the effect of
our care......
N (Intuition)
Nightingales greatest gifts
came from her intuition
flashes of inspiration, insights
into relationships of ideas and
meaning of symbols.
T (Thinking)
Nightingales preference was
to make decisions based on
her logical analysis of the
facts and her own
experience. She was proud
that she had never been
swayed by a personal
consideration of anothers
feelings.
J (Judging)
Nightingale loved to live her
life in a manner that is
decided and settled.
Nightingale had a system for
everything, a planned life,
sustained effort, and
acceptance of routine.
McDowell-Williams
Core Values of Caring Leadership
Always live with kindness, compassion and equality
In summary, Nightingale
was:
A nursing theorist
A visionary
A statistician
A nursing instructor
And also believed
Lilly wrote:
At that moment, in watching this boy, I came
to understand two things. First, happiness is
temporary, but so is sadness. This boys life
was obviously filled with hardship, but for the
10 minutes that I watched him play, this
seemed to enter his mind.
Second, even though this child might die soon,
hed experienced true pleasure. His mother
didnt have to buy him presents to make him
understand happiness. At this point in his life,
he was truly and incandescently happy.
Lilly wrote:
As we drove away, I began to laugh. I
hoped that one day Id find my puddle of
happiness. When that day comes, Ill run
my fingertips across its shimmery surface
and find pleasure in the soft feeling
drifting across my fingers. Seeing the joy
in that boys face, Ive seen what some
people never get the chance to see. Ive
seen life, in its simplest terms, at its
core.
Grandads Prayers
This childrens book was written to help a boy
who forgot how to pray.
As I read the book, think about the times you
have forgotten why you became a nurse
Or, think of someone else who has forgotten
You will see the connectedness to the earth
and to all people that Nightingale and
Watson see in what we do everyday