Nursing Theory I
3. Watson’s Philosophy
Watson’s Human Caring Theory
Jean Watson (1979), unifying focus for practice of caring is center in nursing. She highlights that nursing intervention to human care are referred to as Carrative Factors.
There are 10 Core of Nursing in her theory:
- Forming a humanistic –altruistic system of values
- Instilling faith and hope
- Cultivating sensitivity to one’s self- and others
- Developing a helping-trust (human care) relationship
- Promoting and accepting the expression of positive and negative feelings
- Systematically using the scientific problem-solving method for decision making
- Promoting interpersonal teaching-learning
- Providing a supportive, protective or corrective mental, physical, sociocultural and spiritual environment
- Assisting with the gratification of human needs
- Allowing existential-phenomenological spiritual forces
Watson’s theory of human care received worldwide recognition and major force in redefining nursing as a caring healing health care.