Watson's 10 Carative Factors - Chapter 7

Allowing for existential phenomenological spiritual forces.

Allow spiritual forces to provide a better understanding of yourself and your patient.

Using creative problem solving caring process

Apply the nursing process in symptomatic, scientific problem solving decision making in providing patient centered care.

Meeting human needs

Assist patients with basic needs with an intentional care and caring. consciousness

Providing for a supportive protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal and sipitual environment.

Create a healing environment at all levels, physical and nonphysical. This promotes wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity, and peace.

developing a helping, trusting human caring relationship.

Learn to develop and sustain helping. trusting authentic caring relationships through effective communication with your parents.

Promoting transpersonal teaching-learning

Learn together while educating the patient to acquire self care skills.. The patient assumes responsibility for learning.

Instilling faith and hope

Provide a connection with the patient that offer purpose and direction when trying to find the meaning of an illness.

Promoting and expressing positive and negative feelings

Support and accept your patients' feelings. In connecting with your parents you show a willingness to take risks in sharing in the relationship.

Forming a human altruistic value system

Use loving kindness to extend yourself. Use self-disclosure appropriately to promote a therapeutic alliance with your patient

Cultivating a sensitivity to ones self and to others

learn to accept yourself and other to their full potential. A caring nurse matures into becoming a self actualized nurse.