Exploring different nursing concepts as a student is detrimental to the learning and development of becoming a registered nurse. Being able to research, learn, and advance knowledge about these concepts, as well as applying this knowledge to patient experiences aids nurses in providing caring and compassionate nursing. In my student experiences this semester in clinical placement, I had a patient who had a critical illness and was on life support for a duration of the patients hospital stay. I was able to aid in this patient’s recovery process as the patient was on the cardiology unit of the hospital. Recovery is the nursing concept that I will be exploring in this paper, as it pertains to basically all patients who have a had a hospital stay
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A main caring nursing model that I have learned through my nursing education and career so far has been The Jean Watson Human Caring Theory. Jean Watson developed this theory in the mid to late 1970’s in which focused on a both scientific and philosophical aspects of nursing in regards to healing (Sitzman, 2007, p. 9). Watson’s theory outlined what she called ‘caritive factors’ meaning to appreciate (Kozier et al. 2010, p. 63-64). As described in Kozier et al. (2010) these ten factors embody three primary concepts that Watson’s work is focused on; “… (1) the transpersonal caring relationship, (2) the caring moment or caring occasion, and (3) the caring (healing) consciousness” (p. 63-64). Watson’s theory incorporated the transpersonal caring relationship into her theory, which differentiated her theory from other nurse-caring theories (Kozier et al. 2010, p. 64). Transpersonal caring grasps the relationship with the spirit and soul through authentic caring and healing, in which the nurse focuses on themselves and the patient with authenticity in the moment (Sitzman, 2007, p. 9). Authenticity in nursing is one of the main ways to connect with your patient and make a meaningful experience for them, to be able to treat them as a person, not particularly just a task in the workplace or clinical placement
A main caring nursing model that I have learned through my nursing education and career so far has been The Jean Watson Human Caring Theory. Jean Watson developed this theory in the mid to late 1970’s in which focused on a both scientific and philosophical aspects of nursing in regards to healing (Sitzman, 2007, p. 9). Watson’s theory outlined what she called ‘caritive factors’ meaning to appreciate (Kozier et al. 2010, p. 63-64). As described in Kozier et al. (2010) these ten factors embody three primary concepts that Watson’s work is focused on; “… (1) the transpersonal caring relationship, (2) the caring moment or caring occasion, and (3) the caring (healing) consciousness” (p. 63-64). Watson’s theory incorporated the transpersonal caring relationship into her theory, which differentiated her theory from other nurse-caring theories (Kozier et al. 2010, p. 64). Transpersonal caring grasps the relationship with the spirit and soul through authentic caring and healing, in which the nurse focuses on themselves and the patient with authenticity in the moment (Sitzman, 2007, p. 9). Authenticity in nursing is one of the main ways to connect with your patient and make a meaningful experience for them, to be able to treat them as a person, not particularly just a task in the workplace or clinical placement