Fundamentals 7 Caring - Caring Theories
Watson's 10 Carative Factors
1)Forming a human-altruistic value system, 2) instilling faith-hope; 3) cultivating sensitivity to one's self and to others; 4) developing a helping, trusting, human caring relationship; 5) promoting/expressing positive/negative feelings; 6) using creative problem-solving, caring processes; 7) promoting transpersonal teaching-learning; 8) providing for a supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal and spiritual environment; 9) meeting human needs; 10) allowing for existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces
Caring Process - Being With
Being emotionally present to the other; being there; conveying ability; sharing feelings; not burdening
Caring Process - Enabling
Facilitating the others passage through life transitions (ex - birth, death) and unfamiliar events; informing/explaining; supporting/allowing; focusing; generating alternatives; validating/giving feedback
Summary of Theoretical Views
Nursing caring theories have common themes; these commonalities as human interaction or communication, mutuality, appreciating the uniqueness of individuals and improving the welfare of patiens and their families; Caring is highly relational; nurse/pt enter into a relationship that is much more than one person simply "doing tasks for" another; mutual give-and -take; theories valuable when assessing pt perceptions and being cared for in muticultural environment
Caring in Nursing Practice
Providing presence; touch; listening; knowing the patient; spiritual caring; relieveing pain and suffering; family care
Caring Process - Knowing
Striving to understand an event as it has meaning in the life of the other; avoiding assumptions; centering on the one cared for; assessing thoroughly; seeking cues; engaging the self or both
Caring Process - Maintaining Belief
Sustaining faith in the other's capacity to get through an event or transition and face a future with meaning; believing in/holding in esteem; maintaining a hope-filled attitude; offering realistic optimism; "going the distance"
Carative Factor 10 - Allowing for existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces
allow spritiual forces to provide a better understanding of yourself and your patient
Carative Factor 6 - Using creative problem-solving, caring process
apply the nursing process in systematic, scientific problem-solving decision making in providing patient-centered care
Carative Factor 9 - Meeting human needs
assist patients with basc needs with an intentional care and caring consciousness
Leiniger's Transcultural Caring
caring is the essence and central, unifying and dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines; Care is essential humnan need, necessary for the health and survival of all individuals; Even though human caring is universal phenomenon, the expression, processes and patterns of carying vary among cultures
Carative Factor 8 - Providing for a supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal and spritiual environment
creating a healing environment at all levels, physical and nonphysical; this romotes wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity, and peace
Swanson's Theory of Caring
defines caring as a nurturing way of relating to a valued other toward whom one feels a personal sense of commitment and responsibility; supports claim that caring is a cetnral nursing phenomenon but not necessarily unique to nursing practice
Caring Process - Doing For
doing for the other as he or she would do for self if it were at all possible; comforting; anticipating; performing skillfully; prtecting; preserving dignity
Swanson's Theory of Caring - 5 processes
knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, maintaing belief
Carative FActor 3 - cultivating a sensitivity to one's self and to others
learn to accept yourself and others for their full potential; a caring nurse matures into becoming a self-actualized nurse
Carative FActor 7 - Promoting transpersonal teaching-learning
learn together while educating the patient to acquire self-care skills; the patient assumes responsibility for learling
Carative Factor 4 - Developing a helping, trusting, human caring relationship
leart to develop and sustain helping, trusting, authentic, caring relationships through effective communication with your patients
Carative Factor 2 - Instilling faith-hope
provide a connection with the patient that offers purpose and direction when trying to find the meaning of an illness
Carative Factor 5 - Promoting and expressing positive and negative fellings
support and accept your patients' feelings; in connecting with our patients you show a willingness to take risks in sharing in the relationship
Watson's Transpersonal Caring
transpersonal caring looks for deeper sources of inner healing to protect, enhance, and preserve a person's dignity, humanity, wholeness and inner harmony; Watson's view of caring becomes almost spiritual; It perserves human dignity in the technological, cure-dominanted health care system and emphasis is on the nurse-patient relationship
Carative Factor 1 - Forming a human-altruistic value system
using loving kindness to extend yourself; use self-disclosre appropirately to promote a theraeutic alliance with your patient
