Carative Nursing

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This paper explains that Jean Watson's carative theory allows nurses to practice the art of caring with the purpose of easing patients' and families' suffering, promote the healing and dignity of the patients, and expand the nurse's own actualization. The author points out that her theory contrasts carative forces with the conventional medicine's curative forces. The paper relates that Watson stresses the spiritual side of nursing by creating an environment of energy and consciousness based on wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity and peace.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Carative Forces
Transpersonal Caring Relationship
Caring Occasion/ Caring Moment

From the Paper:

"According to Jean Watson, a caring occasion is the moment or stage when the nurse and another person come together in such a way that an occasion for human caring is created. Both, the patient and the nurse struggle to develop the possibility of coming together through human-to-human transaction, with their unique phenomenal fields.
According to Watson, the phenomenal field is in correspondence with the person's frame of reference or the totality of human experience. The human experience is based on feelings, bodily sensations, thoughts, spiritual beliefs, goals, expectations, environmental considerations, and meanings of one's perceptions."

Sample of Sources Used:

• M.R. Alligood, A. Marriner Tomey. Nursing theory: Utilization and application. Toronto, Canada: Mosby. 2002.
• Watson, J. Nursing: The philosophy and science of caring. Boston: Little Brown. 1979.
• Watson, J. New dimensions of human caring theory. Nursing Science Quarterly. 1988.
• Watson, J. Postmodern nursing and beyond. Toronto, Canada: Churchill Livingstone. 1999.

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