The roots of nursing:teaching caring based on Watson
Document Type
Journal Article
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Nursing
Abstract
Caring is the root of nursing. Therefore, care must be a core component of any nursing programme. Watson (1985) developed 10 carative factors that she considers central to the caring process. These carative factors, which `form a structure for studying and understanding nursing as the science of caring' (Watson 1985), shaped a unit of study at a School of Nursing in a tertiary institution in Western Australia. This paper describes how Watson's carative factors were used as a framework for teaching caring to Semester I undergraduate students.
DOI
10.1016/S0260-6917(95)80078-6
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
Hendrika Maltby, John Drury, Vicki Fischer-Rasmussen, The roots of nursing:teaching caring based on Watson, Nurse Education Today, 15(1), February 1995, Pages 44-46, ISSN 0260-6917, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0260-6917(95)80078-6.