It should be stressed that the nursing service system and nurses, in particular, should be considered as the archetype of Human Caring and Love in the World (International Caritas Consortium, 2009). According to Jean Watson, the founder of a non-profit organization called Watson Caring Science, the nurse of the world should be united to revive the veritable nature of healing and caring through love and to retrain this precious source of love for caring within professional nurse team members. By organizing the Global Caring Field Project 2010, she attempts to introduce a new professional model of nursing at the international level.
According to Earl Bakken, the inventor of the pacemaker, the nursing caring/healing practice should combine kindness and tenderness, unity and harmony, honesty and sincerity, humanity with modesty, and patience and persistence. The practice should also involve learning, sharing the experiences, and understanding the challenges and triumphs of each other to realize the actual essence of nursing.
The professional model nursing provided by Jean Watson is based on uniting the nurses all over the world under the auspices of Love and Care. Moreover, the nurses should learn to offer humanity and care to those who are in extreme need of this assistance. According to Jean Watson, all people who decide to dedicate themselves to this profession, should “come together into this open field of possibilities to clear energetic space where miracles of inner and outer Caring and Healing occur for [them]selves, for [they’re] loved ones…human and world condition” (Jean Watson Travels the World to Invite You to the Million Nurse Field Project, 2010).
In other words, each nurse should be filled with the feeling of compassion and love for patients, which is the best way to heal their disorders and diseases. Finally, Watson states that the caring science is enclosed with the Chinese proverb which unites caring, light, and peace in the world: “If there is a light in a soul, there will be a beauty in a person, if there is a beauty in a person, there will be harmony in a house. If there is harmony in a house, there will be order in a nation. If there is an order in a nation, there is a peace in a universe” (Watson, 1999, p. 269).
In the order to succeed in the nurse profession, it is necessary to master the basics of caring science that involves philosophical and moral conceptions, theories, and models. The caring science theory put forward by Dr. Jean Watson combines art, humanities, science, spirituality, and new aspect of mind-body-spirit nursing and medicine (International Caritas Consortium, 2009). It should also be emphasized that in order to fully comprehend all dimensions of this theory, it is necessary to experience it. In addition, the uniqueness of Watson’s caring theories consists in the possibility to combine moral and major human values and beliefs in a model of a particular nurse group, or a health care organization.
The theoretical framework also aims at developing caring and healing as an ontological concept for the discipline and profession of nursing in particular (The Implications of Caring Theory, 2009). Therefore, this model is considered to be fluent and dynamic because it undergoes constant changes. Therefore, future nurses should be ready for constant self-development and perfection in order to quickly adjust to various social and cultural environments. What is more important is that future specialist should cognate the ethics of caring and treating patients.
Based on the above-presented theories, philosophies and models, it is necessary to follow the goals pursued by the Million Nurse Global Caring Field Project that engage meditation as the main underpinning of sharing and gaining knowledge and experience, challenges and triumphs. In particular, mediation on heart-centered feeling of Gratitude, Love, Forgiveness, Compassion, and Caring is the best way for training nursing skills and practicing skills and abilities (The implications of Caring Theory, 2009).
Second, future nurses should understand the collective love as the basis of successful healing and caring. They should be able to offer their assistance and guidance to humanity irrespective of national and cultural affiliation. Third, future professional should understand the quality of transpersonal relationships and be able to detect the patient’s state of being, which implies the ability to understand person’s self and to center intentionality and consciousness on healing and caring.
Before considering Watson models of nursing and caring, it is, first of all, paramount to analyze the workplace conditions, including barriers. In particular, nurses should imagine even the most unexpected situation and know how to act in such situation. Additionally, future professionals should also realize how theoretical models of caring science can be applied in practice. A nurse must feel patient’s needs and concentrate of love, care, and health rather than on diseases, pain, and suffering.
With regard of Watson’s understanding of universal love, a specialist should be aware of the fact that treatment is to be fulfilled at a universal level and, therefore, he/she should be ready to radiate love and health. Irrespective of specific conditions of the employed environment, a focus must be made on human-to-human relations for a patient and a nurse to feel connection, trust and confidence at a deeper psychological level.
References
International Caritas Consortium (2009). Watson Caring Science Institute. Web.
Jean Watson Travels the World to Invite You to the Million Nurse Field Project. (2010). Watson Caring Science Institute. Web.
The implications of Caring Theory (2009). Watson Caring Science Institute. Web.
Watson, J. (1999). Postmodern Nursing and Beyond. US: Elsevier Health Science.