Jean Watson’s The Philosophy and Science of Caring

• Nursing is concerned with promotion health, preventing illness, caring for the
sick, and restoring health.
• Nursing is a human science of persons and human health-illness experiences that
are mediated by professional, personal, scientific, esthetic and ethical human care
transactions
• She defined caring as a nurturant way or responding to a valued client towards
whom the nurse feels a personal sense of commitment and responsibility. It is
only demonstrated interpersonally that results in the satisfaction of certain human
needs. Caring accepts the person as what he/she may become in a caring
environment
• Carative Factors:

1.
1. The promotion of a humanistic-altruistic system of values
2. Instillation of faith-hope
3. The cultivation of sensitivity to one’s self and others
4. The development and acceptance of the expression of positive and
negative feelings.
5. The systemic use of the scientific problem-solving method for decision
making
6. The promotion of interpersonal teaching-learning
7. The provision for supportive, protective and corrective mental, physical,
socio-cultural and spiritual environment
8. Assistance with the gratification of human needs
9. The allowance for existential phenomenological forces

Jean Watson’s nursing theory can be used in this study since it is concerned with
promotion of health, preventing illness, caring for the sick, and restoring health.