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Nursing The Philosophy and Science of Caring, Revised Edition

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ISBN-10: 0870818988

ISBN-13: 9780870818981

Edition: 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Jean Watson

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Jean 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, respected sources of conceptual models for nursing. This completely new revision 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. It reflects on the universal effects of caring and connects caring with love as the primordial moral basis both for the philosophy and science of caring practices and for healing itself. It introduces Caritas Processes, offers centering and mediation exercises on an included audio CD, and provides…    
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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 5/31/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Preface: Opening-Entering: A New Beginning Almost Thirty Years Later
Interlude
Background
Caring Science as Context
Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring
Carative Factors/Caritas Processes: Original and Evolved Core for Professional Nursing
Caritas Processes: Extension of Carative Factors
From Carative Factors to Caritas Processes
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
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
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
From Carative Factor 4: Developing a Helping-Trusting Relationship to Caritas Process 4: Developing and Sustaining a Helping-Trusting Caring Relationship
Theoretical Framework for Caritas/Caring Relationship
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 Feelings
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
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
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
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
Administering Sacred Nursing Acts - Further Development of Carative Factor/ Caritas Process 9
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
Expanding Knowledge-Building Frameworks for Reconsidering Caritas Nursing: The Energetic Chakra-Quadrant Model
Integral Model for Grasping Needs in Caritas Nursing
The Seven Chakras: An Evolving Unitary View of the Basic Needs Energy System
The Caritas Nurse/Caritas Nursing and the Chakra Systems
Health, Healing, Humanity, and Heart- Centered Knowing for Caritas Nursing
Human Experiences: Health, Healing, and Caritas Nursing
Critiquing Nursing Education
Caritas Curriculum and Teaching-Learning
Addenda
Examples of Inter/National Sites Advancing Caring Science
Charter: International Caritas Consortium (ICC)
Draft of Working Document on "Caritas Literacy" ICC Project
International Caring Data Research ICC Projects
The Watson Caring Science Institute
Postscript: Prescript
Bibliography
Index