NUR210 Scholarly Paper: Jean Watson
Jean Watson stated, “Caring is the essence nursing.” (Cara, 2005). This is not only Watson’s view of nursing, but it is also my own personal opinion as well. Nursing to me, not only involves the physical care of the person in the hospital, but also the emotional growth and healing along with the restoration of hope that often happens throughout the duration of one’s hospital stay. This can be achieved by using the four main concepts of nursing which include person, environment, health, and finally, nursing.
The Person
The person is a holistic being that has many needs in all aspects of one’s self, including physical, physiological, and psychosocial needs. People have both meaning and value, therefore …show more content…
Health is not just the absence of illness, but rather the overall unity and satisfaction of one’s mind, body, and spirit. Illness can be defined as a subjective disturbance within one’s soul. Watson believed that illness can eventually lead to disease, but illness can also stem from or lead to a distressed sense of one’s inner self, and again I agree with Watson. Personally, I have seen an illness begin as an insecurity or a disturbance in one’s inner self, and lead to a disease. Health is definitely not just the absence of illness because even if someone is considered a ‘healthy’ individual, they still have unhealthy habits and a potentially unhealthy lifestyle that could lead to them having serious chronic diseases at some point in their lifetime. I think it is really important in this aspect of nursing, to include teaching and prevention practices, because to keep one’s level of health at optimal levels, they must understand why it is important to live a healthy lifestyle now and also how to live a healthy lifestyle based on their own personal …show more content…
Jean Watson’s definition of nursing is, “A human science of persons and human health-illness experiences that are mediated by professional, personal, scientific, aesthetic, and ethical human care transactions.” (Boore, McCance, McKenna, 1999). To go hand-in-hand with Watson’s definition of nursing, her definition of care is, “A value and an attitude that has to become a will, an intention, or a commitment that manifests itself in concrete acts.” (Boore, McCance, McKenna, 1999). Watson made human caring apart of her definition as nursing, and personally, that it what drew my attention to her as a theorist, because I firmly believe that a nurse cannot be a great nurse without having a caring attitude and the ability to show empathy to others. Our job does not just involve mending one’s physical condition, and without caring we will not be able to deliver holistic care to a patient, and therefore we will not be meeting their basic needs of health and wellness. Another aspect of Watson that I agree with and admire her for, is for her ten carative factors of nursing, along with the translation of those factors into her clinical caritas processes. I just think that these factors and processes that Watson developed are all so spot on in what it means to truly embody being a nurse and to really thrive and stand out in the profession and they remind me of why I wanted to become a nurse in the first
Jean Watson stated, “Caring is the essence nursing.” (Cara, 2005). This is not only Watson’s view of nursing, but it is also my own personal opinion as well. Nursing to me, not only involves the physical care of the person in the hospital, but also the emotional growth and healing along with the restoration of hope that often happens throughout the duration of one’s hospital stay. This can be achieved by using the four main concepts of nursing which include person, environment, health, and finally, nursing.
The Person
The person is a holistic being that has many needs in all aspects of one’s self, including physical, physiological, and psychosocial needs. People have both meaning and value, therefore …show more content…
Health is not just the absence of illness, but rather the overall unity and satisfaction of one’s mind, body, and spirit. Illness can be defined as a subjective disturbance within one’s soul. Watson believed that illness can eventually lead to disease, but illness can also stem from or lead to a distressed sense of one’s inner self, and again I agree with Watson. Personally, I have seen an illness begin as an insecurity or a disturbance in one’s inner self, and lead to a disease. Health is definitely not just the absence of illness because even if someone is considered a ‘healthy’ individual, they still have unhealthy habits and a potentially unhealthy lifestyle that could lead to them having serious chronic diseases at some point in their lifetime. I think it is really important in this aspect of nursing, to include teaching and prevention practices, because to keep one’s level of health at optimal levels, they must understand why it is important to live a healthy lifestyle now and also how to live a healthy lifestyle based on their own personal …show more content…
Jean Watson’s definition of nursing is, “A human science of persons and human health-illness experiences that are mediated by professional, personal, scientific, aesthetic, and ethical human care transactions.” (Boore, McCance, McKenna, 1999). To go hand-in-hand with Watson’s definition of nursing, her definition of care is, “A value and an attitude that has to become a will, an intention, or a commitment that manifests itself in concrete acts.” (Boore, McCance, McKenna, 1999). Watson made human caring apart of her definition as nursing, and personally, that it what drew my attention to her as a theorist, because I firmly believe that a nurse cannot be a great nurse without having a caring attitude and the ability to show empathy to others. Our job does not just involve mending one’s physical condition, and without caring we will not be able to deliver holistic care to a patient, and therefore we will not be meeting their basic needs of health and wellness. Another aspect of Watson that I agree with and admire her for, is for her ten carative factors of nursing, along with the translation of those factors into her clinical caritas processes. I just think that these factors and processes that Watson developed are all so spot on in what it means to truly embody being a nurse and to really thrive and stand out in the profession and they remind me of why I wanted to become a nurse in the first