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Which profession in the healthcare system and in society has the largest number of practitioners?
Nursing
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True or False. Watson believes that caring and economics are mutually exclusive and can not co-exist to achieve deeper levels of caring and helping practices.
False. Caring and economics are not mutually exclusive.
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True transformation of health care ultimately has to come from a shift in ___________________.
consciousness
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What does Watson suggest are possible consequences for nurses who do not incorporate human caring aspects to their practice?
Nurses may become hardened, brittle, worn down, and robot-like.
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What conflict does Watson suggest is the most critical challenge for nursing and health-care?
Conflict between what nursing IS and what nurses DO
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In the article, it is said that the medical system has been framed in some classic research as being biocidic in contrast to biogenic. Define the terms biocidic and biogenic.
Biocidic - unhealthy, toxic // Biogenic - life giving and life receiving for patient and practitioners alikle
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What are some barriers that make it hard for a nurse to practice human caring in the workplace?
Quantity of time demands over the quality of direct-care; heavy patient load; technologically, high paced, task oriented biomedical practice; outdated industrial mindset; increased distancing between patients and practitioners
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In your own words, how would you define human caring?
Jean Watson defines it as a foundational ethic for healing practices that honors the unity of the whole human being while also attending to creating a healing environment.
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What do you think Jean Watson means when she states that the current health model is "customer" oriented?
Watson describes the model as increasingly concerned with efficiency and quantity, outcomes and production, all set within an industrial mindset that is void of humanity and authentic human caring relationships.
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