jean watson

Margaret Jean Harman-Watson

FULL NAME OF WATSON

June 10, 1940

DATE OF BIRTH

Southern West Virginia

BORN IN?

small town of Welch, West

Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains.

GREW UP IN?

West Virginia

ATTENDED HS IN

Lewis Gale School of Nursing in Roanoke, Virginia

NURSING SCHOOL

University in Colorado

1964 - BSN

1966 - MS

1973 - PhD

EDUCATION

1979 - "Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of

Caring"

1985 - "Nursing: Human Science and Human

Care"

1999 - "Postmodern Nursing and Beyond"

2002 - "Instruments for Assessing and Measuring

Caring in Nursing and Health Sciences"

2005 - "Caring Science as Sacred Science"

RESEARCH: HUMAN CARING AND LOSS

The carative factors

The transpersonal caring relationship

The caring occasion/caring moment

MAJOR ASSUMPTION

Caring can be effectively demonstrated and practiced only interpersonally.

FIRST ASSUMPTION

Caring consists of carative factors that result in the

satisfaction of certain human needs.

SECOND ASSUMPTION

Effective caring promotes health and individual or

family growth.

THIRD ASSUMPTION

Caring responses accept the patient as he or she is

now, as well as what he or she may become.

FOURTH ASSUMPTION

A caring environment is one that offers the development of potential while allowing the patient to choose the best action for himself or herself at a given point of time.

FIFTH ASSUMPTION

A science of caring is complementary to the science of curing.

SIX ASSUMPTION

The practice of caring is essential to nursing.

SEVENTH ASSUMPTION

CARITAS

"to cherish", "to appreciate", "to give special attention"

1. The formation of a humanistic-altruistic system of values.

2. The instillation of faith-hope.

3. The cultivation of sensitivity to one's self and to others.

4. The development of a helping-trusting human caring relation.

5. The promotion and acceptance of the expression of positive and negative

feelings.

TEN CARATIVE FACTOR

6.The systematic use of a creative problem solving caring process.

7. The promotion of transpersonal teaching-learning.

8. The provision for a supportive, protective, and corrective mental, physical,

sociocultural, and spiritual environment.

9. The assistance with the gratification of human needs.

10. The allowance for existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces.

TEN CARATIVE FACTOR

CCP#1

Practice of loving-kindness and equanimity toward self and other

as foundational to caritas consciousness.

CCP#2

Being authentically present, and enabling, and sustaining, the deep belief system and subjective-life world of self and one being care for.

CCP#3

Cultivating one's own spiritual practices and transpersonal self,

going beyond ego self.

CCP#4

Developing and sustaining a helping-trusting, authentic caring relationship.

CCP#5

Being present to, and supportive of the expression of positive and negative feelings as a connection with deeper spirit of self and the-

one being cared for.

CCP#6

Creative use of self and all ways of knowing as part of the caring process to engage in artistry of caring-healing practices.

CCP#7

Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to unity of being and meaning, attempting to stay within others' frames of reference.

CCP#8

Creating healing environment at all levels (physical as well as non-physical, subtle environment of energy consciousness, whereby wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity and peace are potentiated).

CCP#9

Assisting with basic needs, with an intentional caring consciousness,

administering 'human care essentials,' which potentiate alignment of mind-body- spirit, wholeness and unity of being in all aspects of care.

CCP#10

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.