Science and Philosophy of Nursing (Jean watson)

• Payba MSN, RN is the author of "Theoretical Foundation in Nursing" published by MSN, RNHCATANYAG RN NCM 100.
• Jean Watson’s Philosophy and Science of Caring is a grand theory that is systematic, broad in scope, complex, and requires further specification through research.
• Margaret Jean Harman Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, was born in southern West Virginia and received her BSN, MS, and PhD from the University of Colorado.
• The Theory of Human Caring was developed between 1975 and 1979 as an initial attempt to bring meaning and focus to nursing as an emerging discipline and distinct health profession that had its own unique values, knowledge, and practices, and its own ethic and mission to society.
• The metaparadigms of nursing include a human science of persons and human health, a valued person to be cared for, respected, nurtured, understood, and assisted, unity of mind/body/spirit/nature, and caring and nursing that has existed in every society.
• The nurse is part of the environment and should ensure a caring-healing environment capable of transformative measures.
• Caring can be effectively demonstrated and practiced only interpersonally.
• Caring consists of carative factors that result in the satisfaction of certain human needs.
• Effective caring promotes health and individual or family growth.
• Caring responses accept person not only as he or she is now but as what he or she may become.
• Promoting health through knowledge and intervention is a central aspect of nursing practice.
• The practice of caring is central to nursing.
• Both persons come together in a human-human transaction.
• Treating patients with positive regard is a fundamental principle in caring for patients.
• Caring-healing modalities are often noninvasive, nonintrusive, natural-human, energetic environmental field modalities.
• Treating patients as holistic beings is a key principle in caring for patients.
• A caring occasion is the moment when the nurse and another person come together in such a way that an occasion for human caring is created.
• Nursing goals beyond an objective assessment and shows concern for the patients own health care.
• Caring is more “healthogenic” than is curing.
• A science of caring is complementary to the science of curing.
• Caring is a special kind of human relationship that depends on the nurse’s commitment on protecting and enhancing human dignity.
• Establishing a caring relationship with patients is a crucial aspect of nursing practice.
• Spending uninterrupted time with patients is a crucial aspect of nursing practice.
• Displaying unconditional acceptance is a part of caring for patients.
• A caring environment is one that offers the development of potential while allowing the person to choose the best action for himself or herself at a given point in time.
• The one caring for and the one being cared for are influenced by the choices and actions decided within the relationship.