Watsons theory of human caring

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Guys I really need help with this assignment. I have searched everywhere for a site to tell me how Jean Watson came up with her Theory of human Caring but I can not find one. Does anyone know where this information may be?

Anyone?

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Specializes in OB, NICU, Nursing Education (academic).

Try this:

http://www.nursing.ucdenver.edu/faculty/jw_evolution.htm

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

I had her as a professor in class. She told the class that she developed the theory as a proposed framework for teaching nursing. She had spent the day in a faculty meeting hassling with the other faculty members about what they should use as a foundation. She felt all the proposals were missing something esential to the essence of nursing. She came home, went out on her back patio, and started sketching out the theory. I believe a glass of wine was involved -- but I won't swear to that in court.

You can choose to believe that or not. I am just an anonymous person on the internet.

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Thank you so much! This is where I can get my information from! You rock! WOOT!

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I had her as a professor in class. She told the class that she developed the theory as a proposed framework for teaching nursing. She had spent the day in a faculty meeting hassling with the other faculty members about what they should use as a foundation. She felt all the proposals were missing something esential to the essence of nursing. She came home, went out on her back patio, and started sketching out the theory. I believe a glass of wine was involved -- but I won't swear to that in court.

You can choose to believe that or not. I am just an anonymous person on the internet.

Lol I really wish I could use this! That is so cool that you had her as a professor. Was she a good teacher?

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In five minutes of web searching I found out who she is, what this theory is (I've never heard of it), and found out she has founded the Center for Human Caring (I got that off of another website that was a PowerPoint presentation link).

The information's out there.

Nope. Its much easier when somebody else finds the info for you.

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try st. joseph regional medical center (NJ) website. their hospital's patient care propponent model is jean watson- seen her whole thing in there with her books.

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Nope. Its much easier when somebody else finds the info for you.

I do not care what you think I really did try to find this information on my own. You should not judge people.

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When oh when are the nursing schools going to stop teaching this crap. This is one pf the many reasons nurses are not truely considered porfessionals. You do not see various "caring theory" being taught in medical school. Teach the facts..that is what is needed.

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When oh when are the nursing schools going to stop teaching this crap. This is one pf the many reasons nurses are not truely considered porfessionals. You do not see various "caring theory" being taught in medical school. Teach the facts..that is what is needed.

Agree. No medical school would teach the BS caring theory crap.

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.
Lol I really wish I could use this! That is so cool that you had her as a professor. Was she a good teacher?

Not particularly. She had some interesting things to say, but was a bit too self-absorbed to be a great teacher. In addition, she didn't always treat her students (or graduate assistants) well.

Being a little self-absorbed is to be expected of someone focused on their own research and theorizing. It's the price the students should expect to pay when working with a great thinker. Very few people can both "go inside themselves to think" at that level and simultaneously maintain the outward focus necessary to be a great teacher. The mind tends to want to do either one or other -- not both at the same time.

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Specializes in OB, NICU, Nursing Education (academic).
When oh when are the nursing schools going to stop teaching this crap. This is one pf the many reasons nurses are not truely considered porfessionals. You do not see various "caring theory" being taught in medical school. Teach the facts..that is what is needed.

I hear ya (and I'm, gasp, a nurse educator)! I am not a big fan of theory, especially at the undergrad level. It goes in one ear and out the other, pretty much.

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