Nursing

A fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a past president of the National League for Nursing, Dr. Jean Watson is Distinguished Professor of Nursing and holds an endowed Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. She also founded the original Center for Human Caring. Watson is a widely published author and has received many awards, including six honorary doctoral degrees. Her theory of human caring and model of caring science are used around the world.

• CONTENTS Acknowledgments Preface: Opening-Entering: A New Beginning'Almost Thirty Years Later Interlude Part I Background; Overview of Previous Publications Part II Caring Science as Context; Chapter 1Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring; Basic Assumptions of Caring Science Premises of Caring Science Working Definition of Caring Science; Caring: Science-Arts-Humanities; Ontological 'Competencies'/Caring Literacy; Examples of (Ontological) Caring Literacy; Chapter 2Carative Factors/Caritas Processes: Original and Evolved Core for Professional Nursing; Original Ten Carative Factors; Ten Caritas Processes; Ten Carative Factors Juxtaposed against Caritas Processes; Core Aspects Theory of Human Caring; Moving from Carative to Caritas; Emergence of Caritas Nursing and the Caritas Nurse; Chapter 3Caritas Processes: Extension of Carative Factors; Caring and Love; Value Assumptions of Caritas; Caritas Process'Cultivating the Practice of Loving-Kindness and Equanimity toward Self and Other as Foundational to Caritas Consciousness Part III From Carative Factors to Caritas Processes; Chapter 4From Carative Factor 1: Humanistic-Altruistic System of Values; to Caritas Process 1: Cultivating the Practice of Loving-Kindness and Equanimity toward Self and Other as Foundational to Caritas Consciousness; Touchstones: Setting Intentionality and Consciousness for Caring and Healing; Beginning Centering Exercise; Centering Exercise; Additional Exercise: Cultivation of a Practice of Gratitude and Forgiveness; Toward a Formal Practice of Mindfulness'Insight Meditation: Loving-Kindness and Equanimity; Loving-Kindness; Chapter 5From Carative Factor 2: Installation of Faith and Hope; to Caritas Process 2: Being Authentically Present: Enabling, Sustaining, and; Honoring the Faith, Hope, and Deep Belief System and the Inner-Subjective Life World of Self/Other; Chapter 6From Carative Factor 3: Cultivation of Sensitivity to Oneself and Others; to Caritas Process 3: Cultivation of One's Own Spiritual Practices and Transpersonal Self, Going beyond Ego-Self; Integration of Factors and Processes; Educational Note/Reminder; Chapter 7From Carative Factor 4: Developing a Helping-Trusting Relationship; to Caritas Process 4: Developing and Sustaining an Authentic Helping-Trusting Caring Relationship; Chapter 8 Theoretical Framework for Caritas/Caring Relationship; Caritas/Caring Relationship; Transpersonal Caring Relationship; Assumptions of a Caritas Nurse: Transpersonal Caritas Consciousness Relationship; A Caring Moment; Holographic Premises of Caritas Consciousness/Relationship; Other Nursing Examples Consistent with Transpersonal Caritas Consciousness; Halldorsdottir Model: Biocidic to Biogenic (Caritas) Caring; Florence Nightingale as Original Theoretical Foundation for Caring/Caritas Consciousness Relationship; Reminders; Relationship-Centered Caring Model; Chapter 9From Carative Factor 5: Promotion and Acceptance of the Expression of Positive and Negative Feelings; to Caritas Process 5: Being Present to, and Supportive of, the Expression of Positive and Negative FeelingsChapter 10From Carative Factor 6: Systematic Use of the Scientific Problem-Solving Method for Decision Making; to Caritas Process 6: Creative Use of Self and All Ways of Knowing as Part of the Caring Process: Engage in the Artistry of Caritas Nursing; Reconsidering Evidence-Based Practice Asking New Questions about 'Evidence' Caritas Process; Philosophical Perspective for Caring Science: Caritas Processes; Documentation of Caring; Chapter 11From Carative Factor 7: Promotion of Interpersonal Teaching and Learning; to Caritas Process 7: Engage in Genuine Teaching-Learning Experience That Attends to Unity of Being and Subjective Meaning'Attempting to Stay within the Other's Frame of Reference; Chapter 12From Carative Factor 8: Attending to a Supportive, Protective, and/or Corrective Mental, Physical, Societal, and Spiritual Environment; to Caritas Process 8: Creating a Healing Environment at All Levels; Comfort; Safety; Privacy; Compromised Human Dignity; Clean Aesthetic Surroundings; Caritas Process: Create a Healing Environment at All Levels; Expanded Levels of Environmental Conceptualization; 'What We Hold in Our Heart Matters' in Creating a Caritas Environment; Caritas Environmental Field Model; Chapter 13From Carative Factor 9: Assistance with Gratification of Human Needs; to Caritas Process 9: Administering Sacred Nursing Acts of Caring-Healing by Tending to Basic Human Needs; Chapter 14Administering Sacred Nursing Acts'Further Development of Carative Factor/Caritas Process Number 9; Human Need for Food and Fluid; Significance of the Food and Fluid Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Elimination: 'Toileting'/Bathing/Personal Appearance; Significance of the Elimination Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Ventilation: Breathing; Significance of the Ventilation Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Activity-Inactivity; Psychology of the Sickbed; Significance of the Activity-Inactivity Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Sexuality/Creativity/Intimacy/Loving; Significance of the Sexuality Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Achievement: Expressivity, Work, Contributing beyond Self; Significance of the Achievement Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Affiliation: Belonging, Family, Social Relations, Culture; Significance of the Affiliation Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Self-Actualization/Spiritual Growth; Significance of the Self-Actualization Need for Caritas Nursing; Chapter 15From Carative Factor 10: Allowance for Existential-Phenomenological Forces; to Caritas Process 10: Opening and Attending to Spiritual/Mysterious and Existential Unknowns of Life-Death; The Evolved Caritas Nurse; Conclusions Part IV Expanding Knowledge-Building Frameworks for Reconsidering Caritas Nursing: The Energetic Chakra'Quadrant Model; Chapter 16Integral Model for Grasping Human Needs in Caritas Nursing; Chapter 17The Seven Chakras: An Evolving Unitary Mind-Body-Spirit Energy System; Chakra Energy Body System; Biophysical Needs and Corresponding Energetic Chakra System; Human Evolution'Higher Consciousness Energy Systems; Chapter 18The Caritas Nurse/Caritas Nursing and the Chakra System; Chakra Summary Part V Health, Healing, Humanity, and Heart-Centered Knowing for Caritas Nursing; Chapter 19Human Experiences: Health, Healing, and Caritas Nursing; Healing Our Relationship with Self/Other/Planet Earth/Universe; Bettering Our Understanding of Human Suffering: Helping to Transform Its Meaning; Suffering; Deepening and Expanding Our Understanding of Living and Dying: Acknowledging the Shadow/Light Cycle of the Great Sacred Circle of Life; Preparing for Our Own Death Part VI Critiquing Nursing Education; Chapter 20Caritis Curriculum and Teaching-Learning; Bringing the Heart and Mind Together for Caritas Education; Objectivism as Mythic Epistemology'Epistemology-as-Ethic; Nightingale as Exemplar of Understanding 'Epistemology-as-Ethic'; The Analytic and Experimental as Mythic Epistemology; Parts and Wholes: The Rhetorical and Haunting Questions for Nursing Education; Addressing the Rhetorical Educational Questions and Issues for the Twenty-First Century; Reconsidering Nightingale as Exemplar and Model; Caring Science as Context for Nursing Education; Professional Nursing Education for Tomorrow; Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Addenda; 1. Examples of International Sites Advancing Caring Science; 2. Emerging International Caritas Consortium (ICC); 3. The Watson Caring Science Institute Postscript-Prescript; The End and the Beginning Index

"Nursing pioneered a human caring focus in nursing. The book is foundational for caring practice and so provides an accessible and informative resource, both for nurses in clinical practice and for students studying human caring at undergraduate and graduate levels."—Adeline Falk-Rafael, RN, PhD, Professor and Associate Director, York University School of Nursing