WATSON JOB-AID

Watson Job-aid



Watson Job-aid

Introduction

The moral ideal of nursing is the protection, improvement and preservation of human dignity. The human caring involves values, willingness and commitment to care, along with knowledge, care actions and consequences. Nurses must maintain a critical and reflective social reality of human beings and their rights in their daily practice, a visibility through research and application of theoretical models that feed quality care and human sensitivity. Watson has studied nursing philosophical approaches built on spiritual foundation that sees care as a moral ideal (Blais, Hayes, Kozier, & Erb, 2006). This paper seeks to deepen the concepts of the Theory of Human Care Dr. Jean Watson, and its usefulness in clinical experience through the development of job aid.

Background of theory

The caring theorist, Jean Watson, first developed her theory and published the philosophy and science of caring in 1979 (Current Nursing, 2011). Watson went to the history of psychology by experiments with Rosalie Rayner to prove his theories about the conditioning of fear reaction in a child eleven months old and has passed into history under the name of Little Albert. It purported to show Watson how the principles of classical conditioning, discovered by Ivan Pavlov, could be applied in the reaction of a child to fear a white rat. Albert was chosen as test subject for his emotional stability. Jean Watson describes nursing as a process of caring not curing, and that it is effectively practiced and demonstrated interpersonally only. Her theory also “suggests that caring is a different way of being human, present, attentive, conscious, and intentional” (Wafika, Welmann, Omer, & Thomas, December 2009). Watson believed that “caring is central to nursing and the unifying focus for [our] practice. She developed ten carative factors, the first three being philosophically based, around the main concepts of person, health, environment, and nursing. Watson's theory casts a reverence for the wonders and mysteries of the life, a recognition of the spiritual dimension of life and a fundamental belief in the internal power of human caring processes to produce growth and change. Watson highlights the act of help for people to con- follow more self-awareness, self control and self-healing available to independent irrespective of the external condition of health.

Watson's major concepts

Person, health, environment, and nursing have been the four central major concepts of Watson's theory and can be applied in every interpersonal human caring moment. She defines person as a living three sphered being of mind, body, and soul (Watson, 1999) who needs to be nurtured, respected, understood, and assisted (Current Nursing, 2011). A caring environment should create and maintain supportive human caring aspects while recognizing and providing for Gary's primary human needs (Chitty & Black, 2011). As the nurse's aid, a nurse is concerned with the promotion of health, prevent injury, caring for sick and restoring as much health as possible. An important care factor of Watson is a philosophical one of “the formation of a humanistic-altruistic system of values”. Watson's third care factor is also philosophically based of ...