2.  Earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing and psychiatric-mental health nursing  Holds her PhD in educational psychology and counseling  Author/Co-author of over 12 books  Hold 6 Honorary Doctoral Degrees, including 3 International Honorary Doctorates

3.  Humanistic-altruistic system of values  Faith-hope  Sensitivity to self and others  Helping-trusting, human care relationship  Expressing positive and negative feelings  Creative problem-solving caring process  Transpersonal teaching-learning  Supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal, and spiritual environment  Human needs assistance  Existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces

4.  This relationship depends on: › The nurse’s moral commitment in protecting and enhancing human dignity as well as the deeper/higher self › The nurses caring consciousness communicated to preserve and honor the embodied spirit, therefore, not reducing the person to the moral status of an object › The nurses caring consciousness and connection having the potential to heal since experience, perception, and intentional connection are taking place.

5.  The moment (focal point in space and time) when the nurse and another person come together in such a way that an occasion of human caring is created  Nurse needs to be aware of her own consciousness and authentic presence of being in a caring moment with her patient  It becomes a transpersonal occasion when “it allows for the presence of the spirit of both- then the event of the moment expanse the limits of openness and has the ability to expand human capabilities” –Jean Watson

6. Human Caring 10 Carative Factors Caring Occasion/Caring Moment Transpersonal Caring Relationships

7.  It is not clearly identified  There are many interpretations/organizations of the content of her theory  Book vs. Online Sources  Transpersonal was emphasized more

8.  Carative factors instead of curative factors  Health promotion, health restorations, disease prevention than curing a disease  Caring represents all factors the nurse uses to deliver care to the client

9.  A patient has been in the hospital for over a week and the family is there constantly, 24 hours a day, and appear to be very anxious, frustrated, and tired.

10. Caring moment: set aside a time during day to talk with the family and client about setting up a schedule/rotation, so that the family members can get some rest, take care of themselves and also be there for the family member. This will allow for the client to heal as well because they won’t be worried about the family and they will be able to heal better with fewer disruptions and chaos of family members in and out constantly throughout the day.

11.  1)Creative problem solving caring process.  We are using ourselves to help problem solve, coming up with an individualized family plan that works for that family.  2)Cultivation of sensitivity to ones self and to others.  Being able to recognize the patients needs and the families needs to speed up recovery time and reduce anxiety and establish effective coping.  3)Development of a helping trust relationship › In helping the family develop this care plan and incorporating everyone helps establish rapport between the nurse-family-client relationship.

12.  Transpersonal Caring relationship is what encompasses the entire theory of Jean Watson.

13.  THE THEORY OF HUMAN CARING  The main concept of the theory is TRANSPERSONAL HUMAN CARING, which is best understood within the concepts of three ancillary concepts: LIFE, ILLNESS, and HEALTH.  HUMAN LIFE is defined as spiritual-mental-physical being-in-the-world, which is continuous in time and space.  ILLNESS is not necessarily disease. Illness is subjective turmoil or disharmony with a person's inner self or soul at some level or disharmony within the spheres of the person, either consciously or unconsciously.  HEALTH refers to unity and harmony within the mind, body, and soul.  TRANSPERSONAL HUMAN CARING and caring transactions are those scientific, professional, ethical, yet esthetic, creative and personalized giving-receiving behaviors and responses between nurse and patient that allow for contact between the subjective world of the experiencing persons through physical, mental, or spiritual routes or some combination thereof.  THE GOAL OF NURSING is to help persons gain a higher degree of harmony within the mind, body, and soul which generates self- knowledge, self-reverence, self-healing, and self-care processes while increasing diversity.

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