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Author Watson, Jean, 1940- author.

Title Nursing : the philosophy and science of caring / Jean Watson
Edition Revised edition
Published Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2008]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 313 pages) : illustrations
Contents Background -- Caring science as context -- From carative factors to caritas processes -- Expanding knowledge-building frameworks for reconsidering caritas nursing : the energetic chakra-quadrant model -- Health, healing, humanity, and heart-centered knowing for caritas nursing -- Critiquing nursing education -- Addenda
Summary The first edition of this book introduced the science of human caring and quickly became a guide for conceptual models for nursing. This new edition offers an update and new perspectives on the evolution of the original philosophy and science of caring from the field's founding scholar
"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 and respected sources of conceptual models for nursing. This completely new edition 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. A core concept for nurses and the professional and non-professional people they interact with, 'care' is one of the field's least understood terms, enshrouded in conflicting expectations and meanings. Although its usages vary among cultures, caring is universal and timeless at the human level, transcending societies, religions, belief systems, and geographic boundaries, moving from Self to Other to community and beyond, affecting all of life. This new edition 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 other energetic and reflective models to assist students and practitioners in cultivating a new level of Caritas Nursing in their work and world."--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-305) and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 13, 2023)
Subject Nursing -- Philosophy.
Nursing -- Psychological aspects.
Nurse and patient.
Helping behavior.
Nurse-Patient Relations
Nursing Care -- methods
Helping Behavior
Philosophy, Nursing
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Fundamentals & Skills.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Research & Theory.
MEDICAL -- General.
Helping behavior
Nurse and patient
Nursing -- Philosophy
Nursing -- Psychological aspects
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780870819797
0870819798
9781457110870
1457110873
9781457109799
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