M3

• Watson's 10 Carative Factors


  • Forming a human-altruistic value system
  • Instilling faith-hope
  • Cultivating a sensitivity to one's self and to others
  • Developing a helping, trusting, human caring relationship
  • Promoting and expressing positive and negative feelings
  • Using creative problem-solving, caring processes
  • Promoting transpersonal teaching-learning
  • Providing for a supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal, and spiritual environment
  • Meeting human needs
  • Allowing for existential-phenomenological spiritual forces
• Swanson's theory of caring


  • Defines caring as a nurturing way of relating to an individual
  • Caring is a central nursing phenomenon but is not necessarily unique to nursing practice
• Swanson's 5 caring processes

  • Knowing - Striving to understand an event as it has meaning in the life of the other
  • Being with - Being emotionally present to the other
  • Doing for - Doing for the other as he or she would do for self if it were at all possible
  • Enabling - Facilitating the other's passage through life transitions (e.g., birth, death) and unfamiliar events
  • Maintaining belief - Sustaining faith in the other's capacity to get through an event or transition and face a future with meaning
• Caring is central to nursing practice
• The increasing use of technological advances for rapid diagnosis and treatment often causes nurses and other health care providers to perceive the patient relationship as less important
• The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) describes caring and knowledge as the core of nursing, with caring being a key component of what a nurse brings to a patient experience
• (Nightingale) Caring: a universal phenomenon that influences theway we think, feel, and behave.
• (Nightingale) Caring is at the heart of a nurse’s ability to work withall patients in a respectful and therapeutic way.
• (DR. PATRICIA BENNER)

  • Caring determines what matters to a person.
  • Caring helps you provide patient-centered care
• Leininger’s Transcultural Caring

  • Caring is an essential human need.Caring helps an individual or group improves a humancondition.Caring helps to protect, develop, nurture, and sustainpeople.
• (Dr. Jean Watson) Transpersonal Caring

  • Caring becomes almost spiritual.
  • Promotes healing and wholeness
  • Rejects the disease orientation to healthcare
  • Places care before cure
  • Emphasizes the nurse-patient relationship
• (KRISTEN SWANSON) Theory of Caring

  • Defines caring as a nurturing way of relating to an individual
  • Caring is a central nursing phenomenon but is not necessarily unique to nursing practice.
• Movement is a complex process that requires coordination between the musculoskeletal and nervous system
• Body Mechanics describes the coordinated efforts of the musculoskeletal and nervous system.
• Body Alignment means that an individual's center of gravity is stable
• Friction is a force that occurs in a direction to oppose movement
• Range of motion is the maximum amount of movement available at a joint.
• Gait describes a particular manner or style of walking