Nursing Theorist - Jean Watson



Nursing Theorist Jean Watson

Introduction

The paper attempts to discuss the case study of “Mr. Issler” in the light of Jean Watson's theories. The paper starts with a brief history of the life of Jean Watson and advances to enlighten the proposed nursing theories. It also highlights the various concepts in the nursing theories and attempts to drive a conclusion about the case study of “Mr. Issler” out of Jean Watson's proposed concepts.

Discussion

Jean Watson

Jean Watson, born in 1940s in a town in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, the United States of America. In 1961, she graduated from Lewis Gale School of Nursing. There onwards, she continued studies in the field of nursing and completed her B.S in 1964, in 1966 she had completed her M.S. in mental health nursing. By the year 1973, she was a Ph.D. in educational psychology and counseling from the University of Colorado. The respect and recognition she earned are attributed to her theory of human and transpersonal caring (Evelyn & Melanie, 2002).

Nursing Theories

Nursing theories are mainly concepts, which are followed by a nurse of in the process of offering assistance to patients. They provide the general framework for nursing practices. They also educate nurses as to how they should be dealing with patients, the communication means and handling stressful patient related situations (Cheng, 2006). American Nursing Association (ANA) has established the following requirements regarding the standards of professional performance (Reed, 2006).

Quality of Care: All the nurses have to systematically evaluate the effectiveness of their nursing practices including the improved performance in relation to the consumer health and emotional well-being.

Performance Appraisal: All nurses have to evaluate their own nursing practices in accordance to the defined national and states statues for the role of nurse set.

Education: All nurses are to acquire as well as maintain basic current knowledge in their nursing practices.

Collegiality: All nurses have to contribute towards their nursing profession by means of meetings with other professionals in the same fields, which include physiotherapists, doctors, respiratory therapists, and home care Coordinators (Evelyn & Melanie, 2002).

Ethics: In order to help the decisions and actions of a nurse, institutional guidelines regarding caring for persons are based on certain principles of ethics that are to be strongly followed.

Cooperation: All the nurses have to collaborate with different health professionals in order to create an environment that facilitates the wellbeing of people.

Research: Research is an important aspect ...