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Career Milestones
• Author and co-author of over 20 books
• Past President of the National League of Nursing
• Fellow of American Academy of Nursing Photo by: www.mceyo.com
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THE THEORY
Jean Watson’s Theory can be broken down into four
categories.
2. Instillation of faith–hope
8. Provision for a supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal, &
spiritual environment
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10. Allowance for existential–phenomenological–spiritual forces (Watson, 2014)
FROM CARATIVE TO CARITAS
1. Formation of a humanistic–altruistic system of values becomes the practice of loving
3. Cultivation of sensitivity to one’s self and to others becomes cultivation of one’s own
spiritual practices and transpersonal self, going beyond ego self, opening to others with
sensitivity and compassion
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6. Systematic use of a creative problem solving caring process becomes creative use of
self and all ways of knowing as part of the caring process; to engage in the artistry of
caring-healing practices (Watson, pg. 325).
CARITAS PROCESSES
7. Promotion of transpersonal teaching learning becomes engaging in genuine
teaching-learning experience that attends to unity of being and meaning, attempting
to stay within others’ frames of reference
9. Assistance with gratification of human needs becomes assisting with basic needs,
with an intentional caring consciousness, administering “human care essentials,” which
potentiate wholeness and unity of being in all aspects of care; sacred acts of basic
care; touching embodied spirit and evolving spiritual emergence
Allowance for existential–phenomenological–spiritual forces becomes opening and
attending to spiritual-mysterious and existential dimensions of one’s own life-death; soul
care for self and the one being cared for. “Allowing for miracles.” (Watson, 2014).
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“We are the light in institutional darkness, and in this caritas model we get to return to
the light of our humanity” - Watson, 2008
THE TRANSPERSONAL CARING
RELATIONSHIP
• This portion of the theory focuses on “the one caring and the one cared
for.” (Cara, 2003). The nurse and patient can develop a deep divine
relationship that blends together and promotes overall health and well-
being.
• This process requires the use of “Actions, words, behaviors, cognition, body
language, feelings, intuition, thought, senses, and the energy field” (Watson
& Woodword, 2010).
• The nurse has a professional as well as a personal obligation to not only see
the patient as more than an object but to also protect and assist with
improving the patient’s dignity. (Cara, 2003)
• The nurse and the patient are transformed together in this relationship.
(Black, 2014).
THE CARING OCCASION/
CARING MOMENT
• This portion of the theory focuses on an actual tangible moment in
time in which the nurse recognizes the connection that is developed
between him/herself and the patient. (Cara, 2003). This moment
dictates the ability for the nurse to have an overall impact on the
patient.
• The use of this portion of the theory helps the patient with
overall healing and renewal. (Black, 2014).
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• Nurses can impact the patient through “health
promotion, health restoration, and illness prevention”
(Black, 2014).
CREATING THE THEORY (WHY)
• Plan was to bring new meaning and dignity to nursing
• Used concepts from personal and professional experience
• Inducted, grounded, and combined with philosophy, ethical, intellectual,
and experimental background.
• The goal was to enhance the publics view of humanity and life in correlation
with nursing
• Watson’s commitment: professional role and mission of nursing; ethical
covenant with society as sustaining human caring and preserving human
dignity; attending to and helping to sustain human dignity, humanity, and
wholeness in the midst of threats and crises of life and death
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CREATING THE THEORY (HOW)
• “Dr. Watson drew parts of her theory from nursing writers like
Florence Nightingale as well as from works of psychologists and
philosophers.” (Theory Description, n.d.)
“It was only after a traumatic eye injury and uncanny golfing accident with
my grandson, (where I lost my eye, literally, metaphorically and symbolically –
losing my eye/(ego)/ I, did I get it. I had to learn to be still, to surrender to all,
to let go, to learn to receive, to be open to unknown mystery and miracles –
it was the mystic and metaphysical/spiritual practices and inner experiences
that carried me through.
It was this journey of losing my eye and losing my world as I had known it,
including my beloved and devoted husband, who shortly thereafter,
committed suicide –that I awakened and grasped my own writing. I was
given the painful but loving, growing blessings of spiritual mystical
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experiences, that I have experienced and learned my oneness with all. I
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learned that all there is is Love. We are all energy of LOVE.” (Watson, 2015).
CARATIVE FACTORS & NURSING
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USING THE CARATIVE
FACTORS…..
• Illness as disharmony
• Carative factor #9: provide assistance with basic human
needs while also designing specific interventions to instill
hope. (Marckx, 1995)
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THE ATTENDING NURSE CARING MODEL
- WATSON, J. & FOSTER, R (2003)