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The Philosophy and science of caring in nursing

vocabulary and meaning . Jean Watson . The Philosophy and science of caring in nursing. Bianca Blanco Dana Galloway. Ten Carative Factors. Uses a decidedly spiritual dimension. Overt evocation of love and care. Each uses a dynamic phenomenological component.

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The Philosophy and science of caring in nursing

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  1. vocabulary and meaning. Jean Watson The Philosophy and science of caring in nursing Bianca Blanco Dana Galloway

  2. Ten Carative Factors Uses a decidedly spiritual dimension. Overt evocation of love and care. Each uses a dynamic phenomenological component. The first three are the philosophical foundation for the science of caring.

  3. Major Concepts and Definitions • 1. Formation of a Humanistic-Altruistic system of values: • A. These values learned in childhood. • B. Can be influenced by nurse-educators. • C. Definition: Satisfaction through giving and extension of the sense of self.

  4. 2. Instillation of Faith-Hope • A. Incorporates humanistic and altruistic values. • B. Facilitates the promotion of holistic nursing care and positive health within the patient population. • C. Describes nurse’s role in developing nurse-patient interrelationships. • D. Nurse’s role in promoting wellness by helping the patient adopt health-seeking behaviors.

  5. 3. Cultivation of Sensitivity to Self and to Others • A. Recognition of feelings to self-actualization through self-acceptance for both nurse and patient. • B.As nurses acknowledge their sensitivity and feelings, they become more genuine, authentic, and sensitive to others.

  6. 4. Development of a helping-trust relationship • A. Development of helping-trust relationship between the nurse and patient crucial to personal caring. • B. Trusting relationship promotes expression of positive and negative feelings. • C. Congruence evolves into being real, genuine, understood by the other. Empathy. • D. Either positive or negative is expressed physically.

  7. 5. Promotion and Acceptance of the Expression of Positive and Negative Feelings • A. Sharing of feelings is risk-taking for nurse and patience. • B. The nurse must be prepared for either positive or negative feelings. • C. The nurse must recognize the intellectual and emotional understandings of a situation differ.

  8. 6. Systematic use of the Scientific Problem-Solving Method for Decision Making • A. Use of the nursing process brings a scientific problem-solving approach to nursing care, dispelling the old image of a nurse being a doctor’s handmaiden. • B. The nursing process is similar to the research process in that it is systematic and organized.

  9. 7. Promotion of Interpersonal Teaching-Learning • A. Separates caring from curing. • B. Allows the patient to be informed and shifts responsibility for wellness to the patient. • C. Nurse facilitates this process with teaching-learning to enable patients to provide self-care, • determine personal needs, and provide opportunities for their personal growth.

  10. 8. Provision for Supportive, Protective, and Corrective Mental, Physical, Sociocultural, and Spiritual Environmental • A. Nurses must recognize the internal and external environments have on health and illness of individuals. • B. Concepts relevant to the internal include mental and spiritual well-being and sociocultural beliefs of an individual. • C. In addition to epidemiological variables, other variables include comfort, privacy, safety, clean, aesthetic surroundings.

  11. 9. Assistance with Gratification of Human Needs • A. The nurse recognizes biophysical, psychophysical, psychosocial, and intrapersonal needs of self and patient. • B. Patients must satisfy lower needs before higher needs: • Food, elimination, ventilation – lower biophysical needs • Self-actualization is a higher-order intrapersonal need.

  12. 10. Allowance for Existential-Phenomenological Forces • A. Phenomenology-data of the immediate situation that help us understand phenomena at hand. • B. Existential psychology-science of human existence that uses phenomenological analysis. • C. Goals are preventive health, situational support, teaching problem-solving skills, recognizing coping skills and adaptation to loss.

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