Speaker Notes Sushila Mishra
Sarah Pollara
Rosettea Clarke
Thomas Smith
Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V
March 27, 2016

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Slide Two Notes
Served as Dean of Nursing at the University Health Sciences Center and was President of the National League for Nursing. Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She developed one of the newest nursing theories, published in 1988: “Nursing: Human Science and Human Care”(“Jean Watson Philosophy”, 2012).
Slide Three Notes
Watson’s theory incorporates spiritual dimensions and interaction, promoting caring and love which can provide energy affecting healing and human development. This theory encompasses the nurse/patient interaction and how it can go beyond an objective assessment and develop an “essential caring relationship” – forming bonds. As nurses, we choose this profession because we have a compassionate and caring heart; it takes a lot more than just your average person to decide to go into this profession, and commit and do it well. (Potter, P., Perry, A., “The fundamentals of nursing”, 7th Edition) As nurses, we choose this profession because we have a compassionate caring heart and it doesn’t take a regular person just to think or just decided that you want to be a nurse.
Slide Four
There are seven main assumptions to Watson’s Theory, and they make up the foundation of her theory of caring. These assumptions are also the basis for her 10 Primary carative factors which will be discussed later on in this presentation. The first assumption refers to caring only being effective if practiced at an interpersonal level; second, her proposed Carative Factors result in satisfaction to the person in need; third, effective caring promotes health and growth of a person and/or family; four, is about caring responses, that we should treat people, not only as they are, but as what he/she may become