Jean Watson was born in West Virginia, and earned her BSN, MS, and Doctorate at the University of Colorado (Black, 2014, p.271). After getting several of her degrees at the University of Colorado, she published her first book called, The Philosophy and Science of Caring (Black, 2014, p.271). In that specific book, she wanted nurses to return back to their early values of nursing, and to concentrate on the caring aspects of nursing (Black 2014, p.271). Dr. Jean Watson is a prominent professor, and a dean at the University of Colorado, Denver, where she has served 20 years and held a chair in caring science for more than 16 years (Smith & Parker, 2015). She is also the creator of the original Center for Human Caring at the University of Colorado Health Sciences (Smith & Parker, 2015). Dr. Watson caring theory is very famous in the nursing world. The three big elements in her theory are the transpersonal caring relationship, carative factors, and caring moments between nurse and patient (Lachman, 2012). Earlier on, the original carative factors were often referred to as “ core of nursing”( Smith & Parker, …show more content…
Watson caritas helped nurses to use transpersonal caring in their field (Black, 2014, p.271). Dr. Watson want nurses to be open more about their personal feelings, and share their genuine feelings with their patients (Black, 2014, p.271). In transpersonal relationships, nurses establish and encourage openness and understanding to themselves and others, thus leads to the development of trust, and acceptance of relationships in which feelings is shared with patients (Black, 2014, p.271). The transpersonal nurse has the power to center consciousness, and healing, caring and the whole person, without focusing too much on diseases and illness (Smith & Parker, 2015).
Why You Chose this Theorist? Jean Watson theory on human caring will help me construct the tools that I need to develop caring behaviors, and it will also remind me that caring for people in this profession will be very important for my future patients healing process. What I learned from this theorist is that in order for a person to take care of someone else, we as nurses should care for ourselves first (Lachman, 2012). She emphasized that as human beings, we are require to care for other people because we can influence them in ways that are unexpected (Lachman, 2012).
As a future nurse, it will be very important for me to show care to my own patients, and to remember that they are human beings, not just a patient that I’m taking care