Constructing a theory in nursing

Constructing a theory in nursing
Most of the time, concepts, proportions, and ideas are used to talk about a profession’s body of knowledge. Even though they are working nurses and know about nursing theories, that doesn’t mean they are theorizing about nursing. In Europe, nursing ideas started to be taught in schools and used in practice around the mid-1980s. The nursing ideas were popular, and nurses who didn’t understand them were told to use them anyway. In short, a lot of nurses were made to think that these theories were the answer to what nursing was all about. This was backed up by the UK’s central council for nursing, midwifery, and health visiting, which has stopped backing nursing ideas. (Girot, 2015). So, this piece is about how Jean Watsons’s idea of caring works. As most healthcare systems around the world go through big administrative changes, we run the risk of making patient care less human. This article goes into detail about Jean Watson’s theory of caring to show what part nurses play in taking care of and managing patients and how that affects their improvement and recovery. It shows what a good nurse should be like.The theory lets us get back to our professional roots and core beliefs.

The Jean Watson idea

Step 1: Thinking about it

Caring supports who we are as professionals in a world where humanistic ideals are often questioned and challenged. (Duquette and Cara, 2016). Keeping these caring principles at the center of what we do every day helps us move beyond the idea that nursing is just a job. This has led to a drop in nursing standards because new graduates see it as just another job, which is not the case. People think that nursing is a satisfying job because at the end of the day, when a client’s needs are met, the nurse feels better. Watson Caring theory lets the nurse show compassion to sick people and their families and help them keep their respect. Still, it can help the nurse grow in terms of actualization. MC Grow (200). The theory gives nurses a framework that can be used in a wide range of scenarios. The weakness of the theory is that it only pays less attention to the patient’s biophysical needs. Instead, the main focus is on the person’s psychological needs. This is more limiting because health is a bodily factor that needs to be taken into account. This makes the nurses’ jobs much harder. As much as nursing shouldn’t be seen as just a job and as much as it is a love, the question that I and other nurses have is: if it’s not a job, what is it? We have bills to pay and families to take care of.

Stage 2: Syntax

Watson’s theory is based on three main ideas: the caring moment, the transpersonal caring interaction, and the healing factors. Watson thinks that the “curative factor” is a model for nursing care. Curative factors try to respect the human side of nursing work, as well as the inner lives and subjective feelings of the people we help. A transparent caring connection means that the nurse cares about the person’s personal and deeper meanings about their health care, going beyond an objective assessment. The caring moment is when a nurse and another person are in the same place at the same time. This makes it possible for two people to care for each other. The helper should also know what he or she needs.

Stage 3: Testing the ideas

Through a clinical story, this part aims to help you understand Watson’s theory better. Because of this, whenever one or more clinical Caritas process(es) are mentioned, their numbers are written in parentheses. The reader will also see that this story doesn’t follow the usual pattern. It includes thinking and analyzing, which are meant to help you understand these vague ideas quickly. The reader can also look at Table 3 for an example of how Watson’s caring theory works in a caring process. (adapted from Cara, 1999; Cara & Gagnon, 2016).

Step 4: Make a decision

I will be taking care of Mr. Smith, a 55-year-old Caucasian guy who will have his 5th amputation on December 5. Both feet and legs have been hurt by gangrene. He is going to have his right leg cut off above the knee because the last cut did not heal well. I know him pretty well because I cared for him when he was in the hospital. I’ve always liked this patient; it seems like we hit it off right away when we met for the first time. He told me about his life, which Watson called “a phenomenal field.” This helped me get to know him as a person, not just as “a case” who was going to surgery on our unit.

In this continuing education paper, we learned the most important parts of Watson’s caring theory and looked at a clinical story that shows how her work can be used in the real world. In this paper, tips and ideas were given to help nurses understand and use Watson’s caring theory at work. The goal was to keep our caring heritage alive.

References

Eastland, T. Y. (2017). A Book Review of Nursing Theories and Nursing Theories, by Marlaine C. Smith and Marilyn E. Parker (2015). Philadelphia, PA: FA Davis. Nursing Science Quarterly, 30(2), 183-185.

Parse, R. R. (2016). Where have all the nursing theories gone?.

Aghebati, N., Mohammadi, E., Ahmadi, F., & Noaparast, K. B. (2015). Principle-based concept analysis: Intentionality in holistic nursing theories. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 33(1), 68-83.

Ortiz, M. R. (2018). Patient-centered care: nursing knowledge and policy. Nursing science quarterly, 31(3), 291-295.

Thomas, S. E. (2015). Theories Guiding Nursing Research and Practice, Making Nursing Knowledge Development Explicit edited by Joyce J. Fitzpatrick and Geraldine McCarthy: (2014). New York: Springer Publishing Company, 370 pages, $75.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8261-6404-9.

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