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Book SynopsisJean Watson's first edition of Nursing, now considered a classic, introduced the science of human caring and quickly became one of the most widely used and respected sources of conceptual models for nursing. This completely new edition offers a contemporary update and the most current perspectives on the evolution of the original philosophy and science of caring from the field's founding scholar.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments Preface: Opening-Entering: A New Beginning'Almost Thirty Years Later Interlude Part I Background; Overview of Previous Publications Part II Caring Science as Context; Chapter 1 Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring; Basic Assumptions of Caring Science Premises of Caring Science Working Definition of Caring Science; Caring: Science-Arts-Humanities; Ontological 'Competencies'/Caring Literacy; Examples of (Ontological) Caring Literacy; Chapter 2 Carative Factors/Caritas Processes: Original and Evolved Core for Professional Nursing; Original Ten Carative Factors; Ten Caritas Processes; Ten Carative Factors Juxtaposed against Caritas Processes; Core Aspects Theory of Human Caring; Moving from Carative to Caritas; Emergence of Caritas Nursing and the Caritas Nurse; Chapter 3 Caritas Processes: Extension of Carative Factors; Caring and Love; Value Assumptions of Caritas; Caritas Process'Cultivating the Practice of Loving-Kindness and Equanimity toward Self and Other as Foundational to Caritas Consciousness Part III From Carative Factors to Caritas Processes; Chapter 4 From Carative Factor 1: Humanistic-Altruistic System of Values; to Caritas Process 1: Cultivating the Practice of Loving-Kindness and Equanimity toward Self and Other as Foundational to Caritas Consciousness; Touchstones: Setting Intentionality and Consciousness for Caring and Healing; Beginning Centering Exercise; Centering Exercise; Additional Exercise: Cultivation of a Practice of Gratitude and Forgiveness; Toward a Formal Practice of Mindfulness'Insight Meditation: Loving-Kindness and Equanimity; Loving-Kindness; Chapter 5 From Carative Factor 2: Installation of Faith and Hope; to Caritas Process 2: Being Authentically Present: Enabling, Sustaining, and; Honoring the Faith, Hope, and Deep Belief System and the Inner-Subjective Life World of Self/Other; Chapter 6 From Carative Factor 3: Cultivation of Sensitivity to Oneself and Others; to Caritas Process 3: Cultivation of One's Own Spiritual Practices and Transpersonal Self, Going beyond Ego-Self; Integration of Factors and Processes; Educational Note/Reminder; Chapter 7 From Carative Factor 4: Developing a Helping-Trusting Relationship; to Caritas Process 4: Developing and Sustaining an Authentic Helping-Trusting Caring Relationship; Chapter 8 Theoretical Framework for Caritas/Caring Relationship; Caritas/Caring Relationship; Transpersonal Caring Relationship; Assumptions of a Caritas Nurse: Transpersonal Caritas Consciousness Relationship; A Caring Moment; Holographic Premises of Caritas Consciousness/Relationship; Other Nursing Examples Consistent with Transpersonal Caritas Consciousness; Halldorsdottir Model: Biocidic to Biogenic (Caritas) Caring; Florence Nightingale as Original Theoretical Foundation for Caring/Caritas Consciousness Relationship; Reminders; Relationship-Centered Caring Model; Chapter 9 From Carative Factor 5: Promotion and Acceptance of the Expression of Positive and Negative Feelings; to Caritas Process 5: Being Present to, and Supportive of, the Expression of Positive and Negative FeelingsChapter 10 From Carative Factor 6: Systematic Use of the Scientific Problem-Solving Method for Decision Making; to Caritas Process 6: Creative Use of Self and All Ways of Knowing as Part of the Caring Process: Engage in the Artistry of Caritas Nursing; Reconsidering Evidence-Based Practice Asking New Questions about 'Evidence' Caritas Process; Philosophical Perspective for Caring Science: Caritas Processes; Documentation of Caring; Chapter 11 From Carative Factor 7: Promotion of Interpersonal Teaching and Learning; to Caritas Process 7: Engage in Genuine Teaching-Learning Experience That Attends to Unity of Being and Subjective Meaning'Attempting to Stay within the Other's Frame of Reference; Chapter 12 From Carative Factor 8: Attending to a Supportive, Protective, and/or Corrective Mental, Physical, Societal, and Spiritual Environment; to Caritas Process 8: Creating a Healing Environment at All Levels; Comfort; Safety; Privacy; Compromised Human Dignity; Clean Aesthetic Surroundings; Caritas Process: Create a Healing Environment at All Levels; Expanded Levels of Environmental Conceptualization; 'What We Hold in Our Heart Matters' in Creating a Caritas Environment; Caritas Environmental Field Model; Chapter 13 From Carative Factor 9: Assistance with Gratification of Human Needs; to Caritas Process 9: Administering Sacred Nursing Acts of Caring-Healing by Tending to Basic Human Needs; Chapter 14 Administering Sacred Nursing Acts'Further Development of Carative Factor/Caritas Process Number 9; Human Need for Food and Fluid; Significance of the Food and Fluid Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Elimination: 'Toileting'/Bathing/Personal Appearance; Significance of the Elimination Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Ventilation: Breathing; Significance of the Ventilation Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Activity-Inactivity; Psychology of the Sickbed; Significance of the Activity-Inactivity Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Sexuality/Creativity/Intimacy/Loving; Significance of the Sexuality Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Achievement: Expressivity, Work, Contributing beyond Self; Significance of the Achievement Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Affiliation: Belonging, Family, Social Relations, Culture; Significance of the Affiliation Need for Caritas Nursing; Human Need for Self-Actualization/Spiritual Growth; Significance of the Self-Actualization Need for Caritas Nursing; Chapter 15 From Carative Factor 10: Allowance for Existential-Phenomenological Forces; to Caritas Process 10: Opening and Attending to Spiritual/Mysterious and Existential Unknowns of Life-Death; The Evolved Caritas Nurse; Conclusions Part IV Expanding Knowledge-Building Frameworks for Reconsidering Caritas Nursing: The Energetic Chakra'Quadrant Model; Chapter 16 Integral Model for Grasping Human Needs in Caritas Nursing; Chapter 17 The Seven Chakras: An Evolving Unitary Mind-Body-Spirit Energy System; Chakra Energy Body System; Biophysical Needs and Corresponding Energetic Chakra System; Human Evolution'Higher Consciousness Energy Systems; Chapter 18 The Caritas Nurse/Caritas Nursing and the Chakra System; Chakra Summary Part V Health, Healing, Humanity, and Heart-Centered Knowing for Caritas Nursing; Chapter 19 Human Experiences: Health, Healing, and Caritas Nursing; Healing Our Relationship with Self/Other/Planet Earth/Universe; Bettering Our Understanding of Human Suffering: Helping to Transform Its Meaning; Suffering; Deepening and Expanding Our Understanding of Living and Dying: Acknowledging the Shadow/Light Cycle of the Great Sacred Circle of Life; Preparing for Our Own Death Part VI Critiquing Nursing Education; Chapter 20 Caritis Curriculum and Teaching-Learning; Bringing the Heart and Mind Together for Caritas Education; Objectivism as Mythic Epistemology'Epistemology-as-Ethic; Nightingale as Exemplar of Understanding 'Epistemology-as-Ethic'; The Analytic and Experimental as Mythic Epistemology; Parts and Wholes: The Rhetorical and Haunting Questions for Nursing Education; Addressing the Rhetorical Educational Questions and Issues for the Twenty-First Century; Reconsidering Nightingale as Exemplar and Model; Caring Science as Context for Nursing Education; Professional Nursing Education for Tomorrow; Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Addenda; 1. Examples of International Sites Advancing Caring Science; 2. Emerging International Caritas Consortium (ICC); 3. The Watson Caring Science Institute Postscript-Prescript; The End and the Beginning Index
