Jean Watson Caring Theory – Flashcards

Caring exists in every society.

Promoting health, preventing illness, caring for the sick and restoring health.

1. Caring can be effectively demonstrated and practiced only interpersonally. 2. Caring consists of carative factors that results in the satisfaction of certain needs. 3. Effective caring promotes health and individual or family growth. 4. Caring responses accept a person not only as he or she is now but as what he or she may become. 5. A caring environment is one that offers the development of potential while allowing te person to choose the best action for himself or herself at a given point in time. 6. Caring is more "healthogenic" than is curing. A science of caring is complementary to the science of caring. 7. The practice of caring is cnetral to nursing.

Mediated through ones own life experiences, the learning one gains and exposure to the humanities.

This is used to provide a sense of well-being through beliefs which are meaningful to the individual.

Explores the need of the nurse to begin to feel an emotion as it presents itself.

Strongest tool is the mode of communication, which establishes rapport and caring. Congruence, empathy, and warmth are necessities.

Feelings alter thoughts and behavior and they need to be considered and allowed for in a caring relationship.

The only method that allows for control and prediction, and that permits self correction.

The caring nurse must focus on the learning process as much as the teaching process.

Watson divides these into external and internal variables, which the nurse manipulates in order to provide support and protection for the person's mental and physical well-being.

Based on the hierarchy of need similar to that of the Maslow's.

A way of understanding people from the way things appear to them, from their frame of reference.