Jean watson

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Jean watson

• The Caring Occasion

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Watson Says

• A poignant human- to human interaction
• manifests within a healing consciousness (pg.
  411)
• a Metaphysical Experience (Watsons use of
  energy fields and transcendence)
• (George, 2002)

( www.shiftinaction.com, 2005)
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Associated Concepts

• Healing Consciousness

• Transpersonal Caring

• Obtaining a certain method of thinking in the
  dynamics of transpersonal caring
• The state of the nurses consciousness affects
  the energy fields of others
• The caring-healing process is connected with the
  other human(s) and the higher energy of the
  universe (Watson, 2008)

• The deep, connected quality of human-to-human
  interaction
• The sharing of oneself (by both patient and
  nurse) in the healing process
• Healing modalities that are rooted in
  intentionality and promote human dignity
  (George, 2002)

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Associated Concepts

• The Ten Carative Factors

• The Postmodern Mindset

• 1. Practice kindness, 2. presence, 3.
  transpersonal self, 4. helping-trusting function,
  5. feeling expression ( -), 6.creative self,
  7. teaching-learning function, 8. healing
  environment, 9. intentional care essentials, 10.
  existential dimension of life and death
  (Sitzman Eischelberger, 2004)

• Multiple truths
• Physical and nonphysical phenomena
• Relativity of time and space
• Emerging artistry, spirit-metaphysical,
  holographic, etc.
• (George, 2002)

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How do we facilitate the Caring Occasion?

• The nurse must bring to the table their unique
  life histories (Sitzman Eischelberger, 2004).
• Transpersonal caring behaviours, in accordance
  with the 10 Carative Factors
• Emotional catharsis and intersubjective flow
  (Mullaney, 2000).

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Applying Theory to Practice

• Treating Depressed Women, Mullaneys (2002)
  Study (the caring occasion)
• Five themes were feeling understood feeling
  like there was a way out, regaining an empathetic
  perspective toward self and other expressing
  negative feelings that enable self-acceptance
  feeling better and able to engage in effective
  problem-solving and health life ways. Themes were
  related to carative factors.
• Mullaney also sights the successful use of
  Watons theory with pregnant woman whose fetuses
  have died in utero, Aids patients, etc.

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The Watsonian Nurse

• ?Searching for alternative healing modalities
  that go deeper than the traditional prevention
  and cure ideals
• ? Application of the caring science
• - CARATIVE FACTORS
• - TRANSPERSONAL CARING
• ? Creating the ideal environment for the caring
  occasion to occur
• ? Advance practice , for example with the
  elderly, to assume the role of the practitioner,
  educator, and consultant
• (Bernick, 2004).

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Strengths

• ? the level of development made since 1980s and
  international interest
• ? Multidimensional approaches to research on the
  caring relationship
• ? technological competency is given a high degree
  of importance in situations of severe health
  concerns
• ?Watsons 2002 publishing indicates tools for
  measuring caring in its scientific understanding
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  (Smith, 2004).

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Limitations

• ? Disruption of the mechanistic medical model
• ? Not in Watsons work itself but in the way the
  bureaucratic health care system operates
• ? Trying to mesh together different values and
  beliefs
• ? Challenge for healthcare provides to adapt to a
  new role shift from sickness treatment
  systems to healing/health care systems
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  (George, 2002).

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Proposal
(Google Images, 2008).
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References

• Bernick, L. (2004). Caring for older adults
  Practice guided by Watsons caring-healing model.
  Nursing Science Quarterly, 17(2), 128-134.
  Retrieved October 25, 2008 from CINAHL database.
• George, J. (2002). Nursing theories The base for
  professional nursing practice. Upper Saddle
  River, NJ Prentice Hall.
• Mullaney, J. (2000). The lived experience of
  using Watsons actual caring occasion to treat
  depressed women. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 18
  (2), 129-142.
• Sitzman, K. and Eischelberger, L.W. (2004).
  Understanding the work of nurse theorists A
  creative beginning. Detroit, MI Jones and
  Bartlett Publishers.
• Smith, M. (2004) Review of research related to
  Watsons theory of caring. Nursing Science
  Quarterly, 17(1), 13-25. Retrieved October 25,
  2008 from CINAHL database.
• Watson, J. (2008). The Watson Caring Science
  Institute. Retrieved November 6, 2008, from
  http//www.watsoncaringscience.org/index.html