Jean Watson Theory of Everything-The Ten Primary Carative Factors 1979 (USA)

Jean Watson Theory of Everything-The Ten Primary Carative Factors 1979 (USA)
Jean Watson was born in 1940, earned a baccalaureate degree in nursing, a master’s degree in psychiatric nursing and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Dr. Watson was named as distinguished professor, widely published author and recipient of numerous awards including six honorary doctoral degrees. Theoretical construction from Dr. Watson theory is used as a guide to many nursing academic programs.
The purpose of Watson’s theory is caring, promotion of health, preserving dignity, respecting the wholeness and interconnectedness of humanity. The theory pictures the nursing as a healing art and science with sacred relationships. It is the need of hour for nurses to identify the healing traditions for caring relationships at the societal and planetary level. There are fundamental differences in ways of being (ontology), knowing (epistemology) and doing (praxis) within the traditional versus human science paradigm. The purpose of traditional science is identification and prediction. Human science is concerned with the meaning of the lived experience. Professional nursing within a traditional science and biomedical model is focused on ‘doing’ by controlling and manipulating physical and behavioral parameters through specific actions and environments that maintain physiological and behavioral homeostasis.
Contents of the theory
Current dimensions of the theory are;

1. Expanded views of self and person; embodied spirit
2. Having caring healing consciousness
3. Forgiveness and surrender as highest level of consciousness
4. Unitary consciousness
5. Advanced caring and healing modalities
6. Nurse as sacred healing environment
7. Trans personal caring relationships
8. The specifications of trans personal caring relationships depends upon
9. Moral commitment and consciousness needed to protect human dignity
10. Ability of a nurse to identify other’s inner condition
11. Feel a union with the others
12. Ability to realize another’s condition of being in the world
13. Nurse’s own life history and previous experience
14. The caring and healing modalities potentiate harmony, wholeness, comfort and promote inner healing by releasing disharmony.
15. Caring occasion or caring moment occurs whenever nurse and others come together with their unique life histories in a human to human transaction and has the potential for collectively expanding the field of interconnectedness consciousness of the universe in a way that expands the universal field of harmony and wholeness.

Ten carative factors
It was identified by Watson in 1979 at the age of 39 years, as characterizing a caring relationship based upon the nurse’s conscious, moral commitment to each person in such a way that facilitates healing. The carative factors are;

1. Forming a humanistic altruistic system of values
2. Enabling and sustaining faith and hope
3. Being sensitive to self and others
4. Developing a helping-trusting and caring relationships
5. Promoting and accepting the expression of positive and negative feeling
6. Engaging in problem solving caring process
7. Promoting trans personal teaching and learning
8. Attending to supportive, protective, physical, mental, societal and spiritual environments
9. Assisting with gratification of basic human needs while preserving human dignity and wholeness
10. Allowing for and being open to existential phenomenological and spiritual dimensions of caring and healing that can not be fully explained successfully.

Jean Watson has played a major role in reorienting nursing from a bio-medical, mechanistic model to one of caring as a trans personal interactive process. Dr. Watson believes that the caring occasion or caring moment opens up a higher energy field with potential for healing beyond body and self, with potential movement toward greater harmony, wholeness, health and spiritual evolution.