Definitions
Theoretical framework
Watson's theory is based on a ____________
Nursing is concerned with the promoting health, preventing illness, caring for the sick, and restoring health.
What is the Watson’s theory of human caring?
The need for food and fluid, elimination, and ventilation.
What are the lower order biophysical or survival needs?
Some consider this theory complex but many find it easy to understand.
What is Watson’s theory of human caring?
A concern for the inner life world and subjective meaning of another who is fully embodied.
What is the transpersonal caring relationship?
Health, human being, environment or society, and nursing.
What are the four major concepts of the science of caring?
The need for activity, inactivity, and sexuality.
What are the lower order psychophysical needs or functional needs?
Caring-love, carative factors, and cartus.
What is some of the descriptive language Watson uses in her theory?
A heart-centered loving energetic field, a turning point; a call to deeper consciousness, an authentic choice of caring.
What is a caring moment?
Society, human being, health, nursing, actual caring occasion, and transpersonal.
What are the major concepts of the theory?
Achievement and affiliation.
What are the higher order psychosocial needs or integrative needs?
A moral and philosophical basis for nursing.
In what way can Watson’s theory be best understood?
A moment manifest in a field of consciousness.
What is the dynamic of transpersonal caring?
Phenomenal field, self, and time.
What are the subconcepts of the theory?
Need for self-actualization.
What is the higher order intrapersonal need or growth seeking need?
The theory does not furnish explicit direction about what to do to achieve authentic caring-healing relationship.
What is a weakness of the theory?