Lecture 10 Flashcards
Who are the theorists?
- Theory of human caring
- Transcultural care theory
- Novice to expert model
- Theory of caring
Watson
Leininger and McFarland
Benner
Swanson
honored as “living legend”
jean watson
WATSON’S THEORY OF HUMAN CARING
what are the major concepts?
- Caring is central to nursing practice.
- Emphasis is on the dignity and worth of individuals.
- Each person’s response to illness is unique.
- Caring is demonstrated interpersonally.
- Caring involves a commitment to care and is based on knowledge.
___ is the essence of nursing and the most central
and unifying focus of nursing practice.
Caring
from Jean Watson (1985) as cited in
DeLaune and Ladner (2011)
– comprise the primal, universal psychic energy
and are the basis for our humanity.
care and love
—composed of 10 carative factors, which are
classified as nursing actions or caring processes
watson’s theory
serve as the philosophical foundation for
the science of caring.
first 3 carative factors
provide more specific direction for nursing actions.
The remaining 7 carative factors
Use loving kindness to extend yourself. Use self-
disclosure appropriately to promote a therapeutic
alliance with your patient
watsons carative factors
Forming a human-
altruistic value system
Provide a connection with the patient that offers
purpose and direction when trying to find the
meaning of an illness.
Instilling faith-hope
Learn to accept yourself and others for their full
potential. A caring nurse matures into becoming a self-actualized nurse
Cultivating a sensitivity to
one’s self and to others
Learn to develop and sustain helping, trusting,
authentic, caring relationships through effective
communication with your patients
Developing a helping,
trusting, human caring
relationship
Support and accept your patients’ feelings. In
connecting with your patients you show a willingness
to take risks in sharing in the relationship
Promoting and
expressing positive and
negative feelings
Apply the nursing process in systematic, scientific
problem-solving decision making in providing
patient-centered care.
Using creative problem
solving, caring
processes
Learn together while educating the patient
to acquire self-care skills. The patient
assumes responsibility for learning
Promoting transpersonal
teaching-learning
Create a healing environment at all levels,
physical and nonphysical. This promotes
wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity, and
peace.
Providing for a supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal, and spiritual environment
Assist patients with basic needs with an
intentional care and caring
consciousness.
Meeting human needs
Allow spiritual forces to provide a better
understanding of yourself and your
patient
Allowing for existential
phenomenological spiritual
forces
foundress of the worldwide transcultural nursing movement
Madeleine Leininger
professor of nursing in the university of michigan flint
marilyn mcfarland
what are the major concepts of transcultural care
Caring is the essence of nursing.
* Caring is universal, occurring in all cultures.
* Caring behaviors are determined by and occur within a cultural context.
in the nurse-client relationship is ‘‘the direct (or indirect) nurturant and skillful activities, processes, and decisions related to assisting people to achieve or maintain health.’’
caring
Leininger & McFarland (2002) as
cited in DeLaune & Ladner (2011)
focuses on the study and analysis of different cultures and subcultures
with respect to cultural care, health beliefs, and health practices, with
the goal of providing health care within the context of the client’s
culture
transcultural nursing
A basic assumption of transcultural nursing is that when health care
providers see problems from the client’s cultural viewpoint, they are
more open to understanding, appreciating, and working effectively with those clients.
transcultural nursing