Nursing : the philosophy and science of caring / Jean Watson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Background -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. 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 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 -- Part IV. 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 -- Part V. Health, healing, humanity, and heart-centered knowing for caritas nursing -- Human experience: health, healing, and caritas nursing -- PART VI: Critiquing nursing education -- Caritas curriculum and teaching-learning -- Epilogue.

"Jean Watson's classic first edition of Nursing 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 second 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"-- Back cover.

English.