Background of Theorist
What is Watson’s full name?
Margaret Jean Watson/Margaret Jean Harman Watson
Explain Watson’s theory in your own words
Nursing goes beyond treating physical illness by building a genuine, trusting relationship and addressing the patient's physical, emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual needs. Watson emphasizes a transpersonal caring relationship that recognizes the patient as a whole person.
Watson’s ideas are interested in a person’s feelings, experiences, and point of view. What philosophical idea focuses on a person’s lived experience?
Phenomenology
Which carative factor is about developing a helping-trust relationship between nurse and patient?
Carative Factor 4
Which carative factor promotes transpersonal teaching-learning, engaging with the patient while staying within their frame of reference?
Carative Factor 7
What university did Jean Watson attend for her bachelor's degree?
Colorado University/University of Colorado
What does Watson mean by transpersonal caring?
Transpersonal caring refers to a nurse-patient relationship that goes beyond simply performing physical tasks. It involves a deep human-to-human connection, where the nurse is authentically present and recognizes the patient’s uniqueness, values, spirituality, and subjective experience.
Imagine a nurse treating a patient like a machine. She gives the medicine, checks the vital signs, and leaves without talking or listening to the patient. What concept of Watson’s theory does this behavior violate or challenge?
Human Caring
Which carative factor centers on forming a humanistic-altruistic system of values?
Carative Factor 1
Which carative factor calls for the systematic use of the scientific problem-solving method for decision-making, later reworded as a "creative problem-solving caring process"?
Carative Factor 6
What was the title of her major 1979 book?
Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring
Name two of the defining attributes of human caring identified in the concept analysis.
Any of the following:
1. Therapeutic communication
2. Presence of the patient’s bedside
3. Empathy
4. Respecting patient’s rights and ethics of care
5. Helping the patient achieve well-being, subjectivity, and dynamicity of care
What is one major theoretical critique of Watson’s Theory of Human Caring?
Abstract and subjective
Which carative factor involves instilling faith and hope in the patient?
Carative Factor 2
Which carative factor involves providing a supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal, and spiritual environment?
Carative Factor 8
When was Jean Watson Born? Give the exact date.
June 10, 1940
What is the 10th carative factor of Jean Watson?
Allowance for existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces/Anything close to this
A nurse really wants to sit with a patient and listen, but there are too many patients, not enough time, and a heavy workload. What can make human caring difficult in real life?
Any of the following:
Workload, limited time, resources, and organizational conditions
Which carative factor calls for cultivating sensitivity to one's self and to others?
Carative Factor 3
Which carative factor promotes and accepts the expression of both positive and negative feelings?
Carative Factor 5