JEAN WATSON
Theory of transpersonal caring
○ West Virginia in Appalachian mountains
○ youngest of 8
○ lewis gale school of nursing
○ university of corolado
○ Masters degree - psychiatric-mental health nursing
○ doctorate - educational psychology and counseling
Center for human caring
● University of colorado
○ sponsors clinical, educational, and community scholarship activities and
projects in human caring
● Books
○ 1st - nursing: the philosophy and science of caring
○ 2nd - nursing: human science and human care - a theory of nursing
○ 3rd - postmodern nursing and beyond (model to bring nursing practice into
21st century)
● Halo,’s 11 curative factors stimulated her thinking of 10 carative factors
● Watson expanded the carative factors to closely related concept Caritas (to cherish, to
appreciate, give special attention, if not loving attention)
● Foundation to her theory
○ ”special king of human care relationship-a union with another person high
regard for the whole person and their being in the world
● Transpersonal caring relationship - spiritual union
○ connection that embraces the spirit or soul of the other through Process of
full, authentic, caring/healing attention in the moment
○ nurses who practice this, show a genuine desire to be present and centered
in their interactions with their patients
● Transpersonal nurse
○ has the ability to center consciousness and intentionality on caring, healing,
and wholeness, rather than on disease, illness, and pathology
● Transpersonal caring - helping patients achieve a more complete sense of harmony
within mind, body, and spirit through the use caring transactions
● goal:
○ Transform technical-medical techniques to caring-healing transpersonal
awareness
10 carative factors to caritas processes
caritas processes - Spiritual dimension and overt evocation of love and caring
Theory of transpersonal caring
○ West Virginia in Appalachian mountains
○ youngest of 8
○ lewis gale school of nursing
○ university of corolado
○ Masters degree - psychiatric-mental health nursing
○ doctorate - educational psychology and counseling
Center for human caring
● University of colorado
○ sponsors clinical, educational, and community scholarship activities and
projects in human caring
● Books
○ 1st - nursing: the philosophy and science of caring
○ 2nd - nursing: human science and human care - a theory of nursing
○ 3rd - postmodern nursing and beyond (model to bring nursing practice into
21st century)
● Halo,’s 11 curative factors stimulated her thinking of 10 carative factors
● Watson expanded the carative factors to closely related concept Caritas (to cherish, to
appreciate, give special attention, if not loving attention)
● Foundation to her theory
○ ”special king of human care relationship-a union with another person high
regard for the whole person and their being in the world
● Transpersonal caring relationship - spiritual union
○ connection that embraces the spirit or soul of the other through Process of
full, authentic, caring/healing attention in the moment
○ nurses who practice this, show a genuine desire to be present and centered
in their interactions with their patients
● Transpersonal nurse
○ has the ability to center consciousness and intentionality on caring, healing,
and wholeness, rather than on disease, illness, and pathology
● Transpersonal caring - helping patients achieve a more complete sense of harmony
within mind, body, and spirit through the use caring transactions
● goal:
○ Transform technical-medical techniques to caring-healing transpersonal
awareness
10 carative factors to caritas processes
caritas processes - Spiritual dimension and overt evocation of love and caring
