...WATSON'S THEORY 2 Abstract Dr. Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring was released in 1979, and has continued to evolve over the past three decades. Watson's theory describes a philosophical foundation for nursing, which puts caring at the center of practice. It focuses on patient centered care, with emphasis on developing a trusting mutual bond. The caring environment allows for optimal health promotion, growth, empowerment, and disease prevention. The present paper discusses the theory's main concepts, and the significance of the model to nurses, nurse practioners, and health organizations. As well as, how the theory applies to my personal nursing philosophy. WATSON'S THEORY 3 Watson's Theory of Human Caring Many people choose to go into the field of nursing because of one's love to provide care for others. However, with the advancement in medical technology, task-oriented mentalities, heavy patient loads due to nursing shortages, and high paced environments, developing a caring relationship with a patient tends to take a backseat (Watson, 2009). Many organizations have shifted their practices to focus on patient-centered care. St. Luke's Medical center, the organization I work for, believes that caring for the whole person helps create a more personalized healing environment. This allows caregivers to focus on healing the mind, body, and spirit of the patient (Aurora Health Care, 2012). In my profession, I work hard to try and...
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...them, and guide us with those tools to improve patient outcomes. I align myself most closely with Patricia Benner’s Model From Novice to Expert. The concept of Benner’s theory states that you acquire knowledge and skills over time with practice and experience. Current Model Current Practice I recently left my position as an emergency room nurse and now practice as a case manager for a health insurance company. My roles as a nurse have changed over the years, and prior to leaving the emergency department I was a charge nurse and the trauma coordinator. It was my job in both of those positions to be a leader, mentor and resource person. I was usually the most experienced person in the department, therefore the person to assist when questions would come up or critical situations would arise. As the trauma coordinator, it was my job to know the ins and outs of the program and ensure we are following the recommended guidelines, and prepare for our certifications. I worked closely with the trauma medical director, leaders within the hospital, and other departments, as we were all one team. In my position as a charge nurse, trauma coordinator and now case manager, I am looked to as a leader, helping to guide my colleagues. It is important for me to set good examples in my nursing practice because I am looked to as a role model for my peers. It is my job to know the...
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...Comparing Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring And The Neuman Systems Model Jayanna Volm Concordia University Comparing Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring And The Neuman Systems Model Nursing frameworks and conceptual models are imperative as a foundation for nursing practice. These frameworks provide recognition, understanding, and the ability to manage phenomena in which nursing comes into contact. These frameworks also provide the nurse with a systematic approach to interventions and goal attainment. The purpose of this paper is to compare Neuman Systems Model to Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring. According to Alligood and Tomey the Neuman Systems Model is classified as a nursing conceptual model. “Nursing conceptual models are concepts and their relationships that specify a perspective from which to view phenomena specific to the discipline of nursing. Different conceptual models provide various perspectives or frameworks for thinking critically and making nursing decisions” (Alligood & Tomey, 2010, p. 223). The nursing conceptual models are comprehensive and define the metaparadigm according to their framework. Tourville and Ingalls categorize the Neuman Systems Model as a systems model. They define a systems model of nursing as viewing “the person as a multidimensional being who reacts continually to a world of stressors” (2003, Systems Model, para. 1). Systems may be organizations, communities, businesses, or social structures. Within the large...
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...Jean Watson’s Caring Theory Nurses’ responsibilities to their patients are continually changing with the times. Jean Watson formed the “caring theory” to convey the significance and emphasize nursing as a diverse health profession. Using the Jean Watson’s caring theory enables nurses to maintain their perspective on caring for patients when overwhelmed with increased acuity, responsibility and workload. With the increase of patients and their needs, nurses often replace the caring attitude with an attitude of arrogance and hurried tasks, leaving patients and family members with belief that nurses believe they are here just to perform a job. By applying the Watson caring theory in caring for patients, “it allows nurses to practice the art of caring, to provide compassion to ease patients’ and families’ suffering, and to promote their healing and dignity but it can also contribute to expand the nurse’s own actualization” (Cara, 2003, p 2). Watson believes it is crucial that nurses apply caring values to their practice because it is essentially a byproduct in discovering the meaning of the nursing profession (Theory of Human Caring, n.d.). The foundation of this paper is to expound on the caring theory Jean Watson designed “to bring meaning and focus to nursing as a distinct health profession” (Cara, 2003, p 2). Description of the Theorist In the 1940’s, Jean Watson was born in West Virginia in a small town in the Appalachian Mountains. In 1961, graduated from the Lewis Gale...
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...Compassion and Caring: My Philosophy of Nursing Practice In nursing, it is important to have a personal philosophy of the profession. It dictates how a person deals with the day-to-day tasks and obstacles that nurses will face. Patient populations are ever-changing, with some much sicker than others, and various lengths of stay expected. The nurse will encounter different cultures and beliefs in their practice, some contrary to their own. Their philosophy of nursing will be evident with how they handle the various aspects of the job. One thing that all patients have in common is that they are in a vulnerable situation. They are in the hospital, many confined to their room or bed. Some have family with them. Others must face their sickness on their own. They are in the hospital for nursing care, and that is what should be provided for them. A nurse is a caregiver and advocate for the patient. A nurse is not there only to pass medications and take vital signs. A nurse is there to not only take care of their physical needs, but also to help them when they are at a vulnerable time. A nurse should not only be knowledgeable about healthcare, but also be compassionate and caring to the patient. Choice of Nursing For me, nursing was not something that I had initially thought about doing, even though both of my parents were in and out of hospitals for various ailments and surgeries. I liked history, and was going to study it at a university. Shortly before I left, I had an epiphany...
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...Concept of Care from a Nursing Perspective Student’s Name Institution’s Name Concept of Care from a Nursing Perspective Care is a universal concept that applies primarily to health. From time immemorial, women have been considered as the primary caregivers in family units. Women always have been responsible for the well-being of the family and the community. If a member of the family or the community fell ill, the women were the only ones tasked with the responsibility of caring for this individual until he/she got better. This narrow definition of care has expanded over the years and has been inculcated fully into the medical profession. Care and nursing have become so intertwined up to the point that they can be considered synonymous. Currently, nurses are the care-givers to patients in hospitals and homes for the elderly. As a critical element in nursing, it is essential that the concept of caring is thoroughly analyzed. The subject cannot be taken as a small matter as it has a crucial impact on the process and outcomes of nursing. The purpose of nursing is to render health services that will ensure that the patients get better and are able to continue with their lives. Care is essential in ensuring that this purpose of nursing is met in the hospital, health center or home. Concept and Purpose The concept under study in this paper is care. This paper seeks to investigate the concept of care from a nursing perspective to determine...
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...Plan Angelica Doloroso University of Phoenix Nursing 587/Leadership and Management in Nursing and Healthcare Marcia Lyles, MSN, EDD, PhD. January 5, 2006 Personal Leadership Development Plan It has been my experience that health care professionals as well as consumers are becoming more verbal about the inadequacies of the health care system. It is clear that improvement is necessary. There are many roads to improvement of the system, one of which is the proper use of the Advance Nurse Practitioner. With this role properly developed, the Advanced Nurse Practitioner can effect many changes both in and out of the hospital setting. It is for this reason that I chose to advance my practice as a nurse. As an advanced practice clinician, I will be able to make a difference in the community by contributing to the enlargement of the primary care workforce to meet the population’s primary care needs. Within the next five years, I view myself in an advanced practice role, that of a Nurse Practitioner serving the adult population in an outpatient clinical setting. As an advanced practice clinician and leader, my efforts will be directed at ensuring that effective health care is provided to the patients that will result in improved quality and health outcomes. At the local level, I will have a strong influence on my team in my area of clinical practice. This involves identifying the steps required to develop excellence in care for a group of patients such as skilled assessments...
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...According to a collaborative publication from the American Nurses Association’s APRN Consensus Work Group and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s APRN Advisory Committee (2008), the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) is a graduate nurse who possesses national certification, advanced knowledge and skills, and who is prepared to responsibly assess, diagnose, and manage the patient’s ailments through the use of pharmacologic and other therapies. More specifically the role of the nurse practitioner (NP) is to provide care along the health continuum in a variety of settings, such as family practice. As deliverers of healthcare, NPs practice holistically and autonomously and ensure continuity of care for the patient. (American...
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...1 CARING FOR THE DISABLED PATIENT 2 Millions people in the world live with some type of disability, and nearly 20% of adults in the U.S. are living with physical or mental disability.The oxford dictionary disability describes a disability as a physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities. It can divided into physical or cognitive disability and then divided even further. A study conducted by Dinsmore allowed patients to reveal their concerns about their hospital care. As a result of this survey, a focused piece of research was commissioned to assess the levels of service being delivered to hospital patients with learning disabilities.Hahn conducted a study with advanced practice nurses and the interventions they use for older adults for preventive intervention model for adults aging with developmental disabilities. Healthcare organizations are expected to meet the needs of this diverse population and sensitive to patients with healthbased challenges and disabilities (Hahn 2014) . In the study conducted by Dinsmore and Higgins, the group for the study was recruited from a charity organization for people with disabilities. They wanted to help the conductors of the study with the project. The participants interviewed had to have a disability and had to have some type of experience being in a hospital setting.Thirteen interviews with this group were conducted and members of these people’s families were ...
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...California, but I have been a nomad in the United States employed as a traveling Registered Nurse for several years. For several years now, I have been working diligently towards the goal of becoming a nurse practitioner and want vastly to study at Old Dominion University towards the Masters in Science in Nursing as a Family Practice Nurse Practitioner. My long-term professional goal for the future is to work as a design and management of the administration. I hold a B.S. from the University of the XXXX Philippines in the area of Business Administration with a special focus on accounting. Soon after graduating, however, I realized that I very much wanted to work in the area of health care because I find caring for people much more satisfying than working in the area of Business. As a result, I now have over a decade of relevant work experience, including 5 years working as a Care Aide in Canada with XXXX Health Services and 6 years working at XXXX Medical Center in Sacramento California as a Certified Nurse Assistant. At XXXX, I have had the privilege of working in the areas of patient bedside care, injury care, Alzheimer’s care, patient foot care and skin care, palliative care, and vital signs. I help to implement and document safe, therapeutic, and efficient care as directed. I am proud to support the psychological, social, spiritual, and cultural needs of both residents and their families. I am a kind hearted person and an extremely hard worker who has a lot of patience. I...
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... From that day forward I knew that I wanted to know everything there was to know about the women’s body and the reproduction process. I wanted other women and men to see just how beautiful, amazing and unique the woman’s body was. As I got older, I learned there was another side to the story. I learned there were some women who could not bear children. I wanted to know why. I wanted to find ways to help them. I decided that I would go into the gynecology field of medicine as a nurse practitioner. I wanted to be an educator of women. I wanted to teach women about their bodies, I wanted to help them learn how to care for themselves so that they could be healthy; I wanted to help them deal when they weren’t healthy. As I learned more about registered nursing, I found that there are various types of registered nurses, various educational paths to nursing, and an array of career opportunities in the nursing field. Types of Nurses There are many different types of registered nurses. Nurses can specialize in diseases or health care condition, like oncology or HIV/AIDS, organ or body systems like gynecology or hematology, or by population like geriatrics or pediatrics. They may work in hospitals, doctor’s offices, rehabilitation centers,...
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...specialty within nursing that deals specifically with human responses to life-threatening problems. * As defined by the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses: Specialized nursing care of critically ill patients who have manifest or potential disturbances of vital organ functions. Critical care nursing means assisting, supporting and restoring the patient towards health, or to ease the patient’s pain and to prepare them for a dignified death. Aim To establish a therapeutic relationship with patients and their relatives and to empower the individuals’ physical, psychological, sociological, cultural and spiritual capabilities by preventive, curative and rehabilitative interventions. Illnesses and injuries commonly seen in patients on critical care units (CCUs) Gunshot wounds Traumatic injuries Cardiovascular disorders Surgeries Respiratory disorders Shock THE EVOLUTION OF CRITICAL CARE * Forty years of development in critical care and critical care nursing has given rise to a recognized specialty in nursing practice . * Critical care units have evolved over the last four decades in response to medical advances . HISTORICAL PRESPECTIVES * Florence nightingale recognized the need to consider the severity of illness in bed allocation of patients and placed the seriously ill patients near the nurses’ station. * Modern medicines boomed to its higher ladder after world war 2 * Dr. Walter E. Dandy 1886-1946 First pioneer of intensive care in...
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...my career as an active duty army nurse. I am currently in the Army Reserve; however, I am not in the ROTC program. Because I am not in the ROTC program, which may inevitably make becoming a nurse in the army more of a difficult task. If by some unfortunate chance I cannot become a nurse in the army, I would like to begin my career in critical care or the emergency department. However, my preference would be the emergency department. I think...
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... A nurse practitioner (NP) is considered an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN). Its work duties is similar to registered nurse but it provides advanced primary or acute health care for patients which include prescribing medications, monitoring symptoms and medical side effects, assessing physical functions, diagnosing health problems, offering treatments, creating different level care plan that fits patients condition, evaluating medicines responses, supporting emotional difficulties and conducting researches. One of the important roles is that nurse practitioner also needs to update the new policies and educates other health workers. In addition, nurse practitioners will serve different groups of patients such as adult and geriatric health, pediatric health, family health, women health, mental health, and public health. These different criteria will require specialized certification in order to provide progressive healthcare...
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...Registered Nurse Neysy Sanchez Miami Dade College Registered Nurse A Registered Nurse is a graduate nurse who has passed a state board examination and has been registered and licensed to practice nursing (Dictionary, 2015). Also, a Registered Nurse gives care by performing physical exams and health histories. This provides a better overall idea of the condition of the patient. In addition, both educating patients and their families are equally very important. Counseling involves many things such as medications, wound care according to the particular need of the patient to ensure the safety of the patient, and a quick recuperation of the patient through counseling and education. The nurse will coordinate care along with providing information...
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