Watson's Theory of Caring Doctor Jean Watson a nursing theorist born in 1940 in West Virginia. She started her nursing career at the University of Colorado in 1964. Doctor Watson was named Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado, the highest honor accorded University of Colorado faculty for scholarly work (George, 2011). She is also a universally known published author and recipient of several awards and honors. She is a nurse, writer, professor, and a theorist.
Jean Watson’s Theory Jean Watson born in a small town in West Virginia on the 1940’s. She is known today as one of the most distinguished nursing theories in our current time. Graduated from a small nursing school in Virginia in the 1960, she went on to further her studies at the university of Colorado at Boulder earning her bachelor degree in 1964, her masters in psychiatric and mental nursing in 1966 and finally her Ph.D. in educational psychology and counseling in 1973. Influence from other pass theories (Carl Rogers, Nightingale, Maslow, Giorgi, Johnson and Koch) to name a few, her travels around the world and private practice were the major contributors to her theory. Well known for her research on human caring and loss, she published her theory “nursing: human care” in 1988.
Jean Watson and the Theory of Caring University of Phoenix NUR/403 Jacqueline DePaulis, MS, RN, FNP February 7, 2011 Jean Watson and the Theory of Caring Jean Watson’s theoretical approach to nursing care incorporates spiritual, humanist, and holistic aspects. The Eastern philosophical influence to her work speaks to the ideals of human morality, connectedness of all humans and to altruistic nursing care. This paper will discuss the background and concepts of Watson’s theory, as well as a nurse/patient transpersonal interaction. In the context of this interaction, the theory’s major assumptions and carative factors/caritas will be explored, as well as, a personal reflection on this transpersonal moment. The Background of Watson’s Theory Jean Watson began her career as a diploma nurse, then, graduated with her baccalaureate in nursing science in the early nineteen-sixties; she advanced, to receive her masters in psychiatric nursing within two years.
With Orem’s theory the focus of nursing is the individual, more specifically the individual’s self-care requisites. The goal of nursing is to help people meet their own demands for self-care on a therapeutic and continuous basis” (p.369). Theory’s Historical background: Fawcett reports, (2001), “Dorothea Orem RN, BSN, MSN Ed., was born in Baltimore, Maryland 1914. Orem began to develop foundations for the self-care deficit theory of nursing in the 1950’s when the curriculums of most nursing education programs were based on conceptual models from medicine” (p. 34). According to Singleton, (2000), “Orem’s self-care has historic significance in nursing.
* VH was a well known nursing educator and a prolific author. * She has received honorary doctoral degrees from the * Her stature as a nurse, teacher, author, researcher, and consumer health advocate warranted an obituary in the New York Times . * In 1985, Miss Henderson was honored at the Annual Meeting of the Nursing and Allied Health Section of the Medical Library Association. Contributions * In 1937 Henderson and others created a basic nursing curriculum for the National League for Nursing in which education was “patient centered and
There is no greater indicator of intellectual accomplishment or education achievement than a doctorate awarded in a particular field. In nursing we are fortunate to have two Doctorate of nursing degrees that are highly prestigious but are diverse in the way they are obtained and also in there usage. The two distinct degrees are a Doctorate of Nursing Practice and a Doctoral Program that is research focused. A Doctor of nursing practice program is a terminal degree and it concentrates on nursing practice for those that will have direct contact and provide care to patients. A Doctoral program that is research focused in nursing helps assist students in preparing to enter into the field of independent research.
Watson Job Aid The job aid that I designed is based on Jean Watson’s outlook on nursing and caring moments. Jean Watson is Distinguished Professor of Nursing and Murchinson-Scoville Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center. She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She previously served as Dean of Nursing at the University Health Sciences Center and is a Past President of the National League for Nursing. Dr. Watson's caring philosophy is used to guide transformative models of caring and healing practices for nurses and patients alike, in diverse settings worldwide.
While in that position she addressed the question, “What is the subject matter of Nursing?” This led to development of “Guides for Developing Curricula for the Education of Practical Nurses” in 1959. We first see Dorothea Orem’s Self-Care theory in her first book; Nursing: Concepts of Practice in 1971. Ms. Orem later went back to school and received Honorary Doctorates of Science from both Georgetown University in 1976 and Incarnate Word College in 1980. Ms. Orem also received Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Illinois
As a nurse that is what our goal is, to give our patient the most efficient care possible. An associate’s degree in nursing is usually obtained in 2-3 years at a community college, it is more task oriented and focused on clinical skills, “Mildred Montage sought to
Person: Madeleine Leininger is a very brilliant individual who received her diploma in nursing from St. Anthony’s School of Nursing in 1948, earned her B.S degree from St. Scholastica (Benedictine College) in 1950, and earned her M.S. in psychiatric and mental health nursing from the Catholic University of America in 1965 (Sitzman and Eichelbeger, 2011, p. 101). I truly believe that in Madeleine Leininger view in a person attribute to an individual’s human caring and cultural being as well as a family, group, and as society. As stated in Sitzman and Eichelbeger (2011), “Cultural and social structure dimensions include factors related to religion, social structure, political/legal concerns, economics, educational patterns, the use of technologies, cultural values, and ethnohistory that influence cultural responses of human beings within a cultural context” (p. 103). Environment: Leininger’s theory had an impact that referred to the physical or ecological environment and conditions in which individuals and cultural groups live.