60:, the youngest of eight children. She attended high school in West Virginia. Watson knew she wanted to be a nurse at the age of 10 when she saw a friend of her older sister having a seizure. Her father died suddenly when she was 16 years old, something she claims made her particularly sensitive to people and their suffering for the rest of her life. She attended the Lewis Gale School of Nursing located in Roanoke, Virginia, where she graduated in 1961. Keen to go beyond the medical pathology she learned at nursing school, Watson completed both her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Psychiatric Nursing at the
93:, each of whom were pioneers in creating the concept of transpersonal. Watson defines the idea of transpersonal as "an inter-subjective human-human relationship in which the person of the nurse affects and is affected by the person of the other. Both are fully present in the moment and feel a union with the other." The four major concepts in the science of caring are health, nursing, environment or society, and human being.
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the chancellor. Even when we didn’t always agree, we agreed to disagree. So, it was really a very collaborative, exciting, and creative time. And faculty thrived. We were No. 5 in the country for research funded by the
National Institutes of Health. That’s pretty special, and we haven’t gotten back there since".
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Faculty members remember Watson’s deanship transforming the college into an “epicenter for human caring”. Watson has stated that “I’ve had faculty tell me that it was like
Camelot when I was dean. For me, it was great fun. It was challenging in terms of what we were doing, but I had good support from
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use my work, so it’s had kind of a life of its own. But the thing is, it’s not my work – it’s nursing. I’m just giving a voice to nursing. I haven’t done anything original. I’ve just provided a language, and a philosophical and scientific framework that holds it together and makes it understandable”.
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In 1997, Watson sustained an injury that resulted in the loss of her left eye, then a year later, her husband of 37 years died by suicide. She claims the two incidents allowed her to understand her work on another level, saying: “It was this journey of losing my eye and losing my world as I had known
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As dean, Watson advanced research and refined the university’s doctorate program. Seeing the need for a more interdisciplinary, philosophical-theory-guided approach to patient care, in 1986 she established the Center for Human Caring. She also established the Denver
Nursing Project in Human Caring,
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The theory of human caring, first developed by Watson in 1979, is patient care that involves a more holistic treatment for patients. As opposed to just using science to care for and heal patients, at the center of the theory of human caring is the idea that being more attentive and conscious during
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In a 2023 interview, Watson recalled that one clinic at the Denver VA hospital “was totally community-oriented and guided under my theory. It was initiated because at the time the AIDS population was being hospitalized inappropriately. We listened to the people and provided whatever they wanted –
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Boulder by 1966. In 1973, after earning her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Counseling, Watson begun her career teaching nursing courses at the CU College of Nursing. By 1979 she was the director of the university’s doctoral program, and in 1986 she became the founder and director of its
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in the fall of 1983, taking the university’s college of nursing into its “golden age”. During a 2023 interview, Watson revealed that she was at first reluctant to accept the position due to the amount of unrealized potential she saw in the college.
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whether it was exercise physiology, nutrition, healing touch, massage, or group therapy. It was totally interdisciplinary, and we were able to demonstrate that we saved over a million dollars every year by hosting that program”.
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Over the course of her many academic works, Watson developed a set of 10 "caritive" processes to act as a guide for the core of nursing. The following are translation of the "carative" factors into clinical processes.
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Creating healing environment at all levels (physical as well as non-physical), subtle environment of energy and consciousness, whereby wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity, and peace are potentiated.
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Being present to, and supportive of, the expression of positive and negative feelings as a connection with deeper spirit of self and the one-being-cared-for.
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