Exam 18: Jean Watsons Theory of Human Caring

Watson proposes that: The nurse's moral commitment, intentionality, and caritas consciousness is to protect, enhance, promote, and potentiate human dignity, wholeness, and healing, wherein a person creates or co-creates his or her own meaning for existence, healing, wholeness, and living and dying.

The major conceptual elements of Watson's caring theory include all of the following EXCEPT:

A caring occasion occurs whenever:

When a nurse and another come together with their unique life histories in a human-to-human transaction, this is considered a:

Woodward suggests there is a new emphasis on a change of consciousness, a focused intentionality toward caring and healing relationships and modalities, a shift toward a spiritualization of health as opposed to a limited medicalized view.

The action and choice by the nurse and other to be in the moment is considered a:

The dynamic of transpersonal caring (healing) within a caring moment is manifest in:

The caring-healing modalities within the context of transpersonal caring/caritas consciousness potentiate harmony, wholeness, and unity of being by releasing:

In her discussion of the application of Watson's theory, Woodward proposes that collaboration and co-creation are key elements in the endeavors to translate Caring Theory into practice. She suggests that they:

The terms transpersonal and a transpersonal caring relationship are foundational to Watson's work. "Transpersonal" conveys a concern for:

According to Watson, consciousness:

Watson's original 10 carative factors include all of the following EXCEPT: