"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."Florence Nightingale
Welcome students
This blog has been created to help facilitate learning for the course Nursing Theorist 101. I hope that it helps to enhance your classroom experience and provides an area where you can come to receive answers to questions, learn new factoids, and help promote a creative and interactive experience to your learning.
Jean Watson
Transpersonal Caring Model
“The nurse enters the patient’s room, a feeling of expectation is created.” - Jean Watson
http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/Watson.html
http://www.innovativecaremodels.com/uploads/File/caring%20model/Overview%20JW%20Theory.pdf
Also check out the Watson Caring Institute. Just click on the link below.
http://www.watsoncaringscience.org/
"We are the light in institutional darkness, and in this model we get to return to the light of our humanity"
Dr. Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN- BC, FAAN
Watson Caring Science Institute
Dr. Jean Watson, Founder, created her international nonprofit Watson Caring Science Institute in 2007 with the mission to restore the profound nature of caring-healing in today’s healthcare systems and to retain its most precious resource, caring professional nurses and transdisciplinary care team members.
Dr. Watson has been quoted as saying such things as, "nursing consist of knowledge, thought, values, philosophy, commitment, and action, with some degree of passion " (p. 98). Her theory asks that nurses go beyond the completion of tasks and procedure to develop a therapeutic and caring relationship with the patient that can often do more than the procedures itself. She is determined to make it known that patients are people and they shall not be treated as a disease, procedure, or a task to be completed before the timeclock punchout.
How do you feel about Watson and her Transpersonal Caring Model?
References
Alligood, M.R., & Tomey, A.M. (2010). Nursing theoriest and their work (7th ed.). Mosby Elsevier.
I absolutely love Jean Watson, especially her caring caritas. She has become such a dynamic role model for nursing. Not only can her theory apply to general nursing but also extend into such specialized areas as dealing with death and dying. I believe she is one theorist that is a must in nursing school.
ReplyDeleteNursing theories provide direction and guidance for structuring professional nursing practice, education, and research. They also act as a resourceful tool to guide decision-making. In practice, theories guide nurses through the nursing process and help them explain practice. In education, a conceptual framework provides the general focus for curriculum design (Billings & Halstead, 2012). In research, nursing theories offer a systematic approach to identifying questions for study and interpreting findings (Alligood & Tomey, 2010). Many nursing theorists have made substantial contributions to the development of nursing knowledge. Offering an assortment of perspectives, the theories vary in their level of abstraction and their conceptualization of the metaparadigm of nursing.
ReplyDeleteReferences
Alligood, M.R., & Tomey, A.M. (2010). Nursing theorists and their work (7th ed.). Maryland Heights, MO: Mosby Elsevier.
Billings, D. & Halstead, J. (2012). Teaching in nursing: A guide for faculty (4th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders Elsevier.