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Nursing: Human Science and Human Care: A Theory of Nursing
This Classic Book By Renowned Nurse Theorist Jean Watson Discusses The Balance Between Science And Caring That Is The Basis Of The Nursing Profession. Watson's Theory Of Human Care Draws From The Works Of Western And Eastern Philosophers, Approaching The Human Care Relationship As A Moral Idea That Includes Concepts Such As Phenomenal Field, Actual Caring Occasion, And Transpersonal Caring. Inherent In This Theory Are Concepts Of Health And Illness, The Environment, And The Universe.
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111 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
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Jean Watson
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Dr. Jean Watson is Distinguished Professor of Nursing and holds an endowed Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Denver and Anschutz Medical Center Campus. She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
She is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden.
Clinical nurses and academic programs throughout the world use her published works on the philosophy and theory of human caring and the art and science of caring in nursing.
As author/co-author of over 14 books on caring, her latest books range from empirical measurements of caring, to new postmodern philosophies of caring and healing. Her books have been American Journal of Nursing books of the year awards, seek to bridge paradigms as well as point toward transformative models for the 21st century. In 2008 Dr. Watson created a non-profit foundation: Watson Caring Science Institute, to further the work of Caring Science in the world (www.watsoncaringscience.org).
Dr. Jean Watson is Distinguished Professor of Nursing and holds an endowed Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Denver and Anschutz Medical Center Campus. She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
She is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden.
Clinical nurses and academic programs throughout the world use her published works on the philosophy and theory of human caring and the art and science of caring in nursing.
As author/co-author of over 14 books on caring, her latest books range from empirical measurements of caring, to new postmodern philosophies of caring and healing. Her books have been American Journal of Nursing books of the year awards, seek to bridge paradigms as well as point toward transformative models for the 21st century. In 2008 Dr. Watson created a non-profit foundation: Watson Caring Science Institute, to further the work of Caring Science in the world (www.watsoncaringscience.org).
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September 21, 2009
This book was necessary for a writing assignment in my NRSE 301 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing class at Central Connecticut State University. The assignment is to analyze a Grand Theory of Nursing, which I will not do here.
I expected this book to be way over my head in the esoteric strata. I was delightfully surprised to not only find it readable, but I could not put it down.
Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing care is centered around humanistic nursing that recognizes not only the bio-psycho-social aspects of the individual, but also - and especially - the spiritual. Care, in her philosophy, is not merely presence or words or symbols to express care, but nursing actions directed by both clinical knowledge and clinical expertise to respond to client needs. She decries the objectification of the client as a mere patient requiring nursing care, and object to attend to. Transpersonal caring, as she describes it, alters the future of both the person cared for and the nurse becoming part of the past life history of both.
Her philosophy has foundations in some of the great philosophers but she had me at Jung. In fact, sitting down to Jean Watson was like sitting down to Jung for me.
The analytical paper is due 10/7 but my presentation to the class is due 09/30. Neither is yet prepared.
I expected this book to be way over my head in the esoteric strata. I was delightfully surprised to not only find it readable, but I could not put it down.
Jean Watson's philosophy of nursing care is centered around humanistic nursing that recognizes not only the bio-psycho-social aspects of the individual, but also - and especially - the spiritual. Care, in her philosophy, is not merely presence or words or symbols to express care, but nursing actions directed by both clinical knowledge and clinical expertise to respond to client needs. She decries the objectification of the client as a mere patient requiring nursing care, and object to attend to. Transpersonal caring, as she describes it, alters the future of both the person cared for and the nurse becoming part of the past life history of both.
Her philosophy has foundations in some of the great philosophers but she had me at Jung. In fact, sitting down to Jean Watson was like sitting down to Jung for me.
The analytical paper is due 10/7 but my presentation to the class is due 09/30. Neither is yet prepared.
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