Jean Watson Report 8 TFN

THEORY OF TRANSPERSONAL
CARING
M a r g a r e t J e a n H a r m a n - Wa t s o n
P h D. R N . A H N - B C . FA A N
10.21.2019
Gracel Caye M. Beronio
CONTENTS
1 B a c kg r o u n d of t h e T h e o r i s t
2 A s s u m p t i o n s ＆ M a j o r C o n c e p t
3 M e t a p a r a d i g m
4 U s e f u l n e s s of t h e T h e o r y
1 Background of the Theorist
M a r g a r e t
P h D , R N ,
J e a n H a r m a n - W a t s o n
A H N - B C , FA A N
Margaret Jean Harman Watson
P h D , R N , A H N - B C , FA A N
Dr. Jean Watson is a distinguished professor, nurse theorist, and founder

and director of the nonprofit Watson Caring Science Institute. In 2013, she
was awarded the American Academy of Nursing's 'Living Legend' award, its
highest honor. She is best known for her Theory of Human Caring and Ten
Caritas Processes, which serve as a blueprint for professional nursing
practice.
Watson was born in West Virginia and received her BSN (Bachelor of
Science in Nursing) from the University of Colorado in 1964. She went on to
complete her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Counseling from the
same university. She has since earned ten honorary doctoral degrees and
has extensive experience working in mental health nursing and caring
science. Her continued research is focused in the area of human caring and
loss.
Margaret Jean Harman Watson
P h D , R N , A H N - B C , FA A N
Watson created the Theory of Human Caring between 1975 and 1979 from
her personal views of nursing. Her hope at the time was that her theory
would help distinguish nursing science as a separate and important entity
from medical science. Her work was influenced by her teaching experience
and was created as a way to find common meaning among nurses from all
over the world.
Watson's theory was first published in 1988. Since that time, she has
produced more than 20 books on caring, and her teachings are used by
clinical nurses and academic programs all over the world.
2
Assumptions and Major
Concepts
“ C a r i n g i s t h e e s s e n c e o f
n u r s i n g .”
J e a n W a t s o n
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
• Moral committment, intentionality and caritas
conciousness by the nurse, protect, enhance and
potentiate human dignity, wholeness and healing.
• The concious will of the nurse affirms the spiritual

significance of the patient while seeking to sustain caring
in the midst of threat and despair. “ I- Thou” rather than
“I-It”
• The nurse seeks to recognize, accurately detect and

connect with the inner condition of spirit of another
through genuine presence and by being centered in the
caring moment; actions, words, behaviours, cognition,
body language, feelings, intuition and so on.
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
• The nurse's ability to connect wit another at this
transpersonal spirit-spirit level is translated via
movements, gestures, facial expressions, procedures,
information, touch, sound, verbal expressions and other
scientific, technical, esthetic and human means of
communication into nursing human arts
• The caring-healing modalities within the context of of

transpersonal caring/caritas consciousness potenriate
harmony, wholeness and unity of being by releasing
some of the disharmony.
• On-going personal and professional development and

spiritual growth, as well as personal spiritual practice,
assist the nurse in entering into this deeper level of
professional healin practice.
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
• The nurse's own life history, previous experiences,
opportunities for focused study, having lived through or
experienced various human conditions and having
imagined other's feelings in various circumstances are
valuable teachers.
• Other facilitators are personal growth experiences such as

psychotherapy, transpersonal psychology, meditation,
bioenergetics work and other models for spiritual
awakening.
• Continuous growth for developing and maturing within a

transpersonal caring model is ongoing. The notion of
health professionals as wounded healers is
acknowledeged as part of the necessary growth of this
theory.
Ten Caritas MAJOR CONCEPTS
1. Cultivating the practice of Loving-Kindness and Equanimity Toward Self and

Other as Foundational to Caritas Consiousness.
2. Being Authentically Present: Enabling, Sustaining and Honoring the Faith , Hope
and Deep Belief System and the Inner-Subjective World of Self / Other.
3. Cultivation of One's Own Spiritual Practices and Transpersonal Self, Going Beyong
Ego-self.
4. Development and Sustaining a Helping-Trust Caring Relationship
5. Being Present to, and Supportive of, the Expression of Positive and Negative
Feelings.
Ten Caritas MAJOR CONCEPTS
6. Creative Use of Self and All ways of Knowing as Part of the Caring Process; Engage in
the Artistry of Caritas Nursing.
7. Engage in Genuine Teaching-Learning Experience that Attends to Unity of Being and

Subjective Meaning-Attempting to Stay within the Other's Frame of Reference.
8. Creating a Healing Environment at All Levels
9. Administering Sacred Nursing Acts of Caring Healing by Tending to Basic Human

Needs
10. Opening and Attending to Spiritual/ Mysterious and Existential Unknowns of Life-
Death.
3 Metaparadigm
“ C a r i n g i s t h e e s s e n c e
n u r s i n g .”
J e a n W a t s o n
o f
METAPARADIGM
Nursing According to Watson (1988) the word “nurse” is both a

noun and a verb. It consists o “ Knowledge, thought, values,
philosophy, commitment, and action with some degree of
passion
Trim of Nursing- Procedures, tasks, techniques in practice.

Core of Nursing - The aspects of the nurse-patient
relationship resulting in a therapeutic outcome included in
the transpersonal caring process.
Curing - Refers to the elimination of diseases
METAPARADIGM
Personhood Are interchangeably used with human being, person, life,

personhood and self. She views the person as a unity of
mind, body, spirit and nature.
She says that personhood is tied to notions that one's soul

posseses a body that is not confined by objective time and
space.
METAPARADIGM
Health She defined health as “unity and harmony within the mind,
body and soul” associated with “the degree of congruence
beween the selfas percieved and the self as experienced.”
Environment The role of nurses to the environment are as “attending to

supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical,
societal, and spiritual environments”
“The caring science is not only for sustaining humanity but

also for sustaining the planet.”
4 Usefulness of the Theory
“ C a r i n g i s t h e e s s e n c e
n u r s i n g .”
J e a n W a t s o n
o f
USEFULNESS OF THE THEORY
To Practice In practice, this means that a nurse practitioner engages

his/her own emotions in the caring relationship, not being
closed to new spiritual and emotional experiences while
looking after the physical and health needs of the patient.
To Education The workplace environment that nurses face can be

frustrating and morally destroying as they face disrespect,
anger, frustration and apathy from various areas in the
healthcare workplace. To counter this experience,
cultivating caring in nursing practice seems to be a pre-
requisite for basic peace of mind for the nurse practitioner.
This can be cultivated if the ability to cultivate caring is part
of the curriculum in nursing education.
USEFULNESS OF THE THEORY
To Research Qualitative, naturalistic, and phenomenological methods

have been identified as particularly relevant to the study of
caring and to the development of nursing as a human
science.
To Other Fields Watson's theory calls for administrative practices and

business models to embrace caring, even in a health care
environment of increased aquity levels of hospitalized
individuals, short hospital stays, increasing complexity of
technology, and rising expectations in the task of nursing.
References
https://www.homeworkhelpglobal.com/us/blog/jean-watsons-theory-care-
application-nursing-practice/
https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Jean-Watsons-Theory-of-Caring-The-
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THEORY OF TRANSPERSONAL

Dr. Jean Watson is a distinguished professor, nurse theorist, and founder

• The concious will of the nurse affirms the spiritual

• The nurse seeks to recognize, accurately detect and

• The caring-healing modalities within the context of of

• On-going personal and professional development and

• Other facilitators are personal growth experiences such as

• Continuous growth for developing and maturing within a

1. Cultivating the practice of Loving-Kindness and Equanimity Toward Self and

4. Development and Sustaining a Helping-Trust Caring Relationship

7. Engage in Genuine Teaching-Learning Experience that Attends to Unity of Being and

8. Creating a Healing Environment at All Levels

9. Administering Sacred Nursing Acts of Caring Healing by Tending to Basic Human

Nursing According to Watson (1988) the word “nurse” is both a

Trim of Nursing- Procedures, tasks, techniques in practice.

Personhood Are interchangeably used with human being, person, life,

She says that personhood is tied to notions that one's soul

Environment The role of nurses to the environment are as “attending to

“The caring science is not only for sustaining humanity but

To Practice In practice, this means that a nurse practitioner engages

To Education The workplace environment that nurses face can be

To Research Qualitative, naturalistic, and phenomenological methods

To Other Fields Watson's theory calls for administrative practices and

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