A Model Where Caring and Healing Meets: Watson’s Theory of Human Caring

Abstract

Nursing models form a framework for systematizing nursing practices. Internationally, nurses have started to view working with nursingmodels as a pre-requisite for distinguishing nursing from medicineand becoming a profession. This article aims to help Turkish nursesunderstand Watson’s “theory of human caring”. It also addresses thetheory, assumptions and the basic concepts underlying Watson’s theory of human caring. It is considered that Watson’s theory of human caring can be used inany area of nursing and for practice, educational, research and administrative purposes. Nurses in Turkey should distinguish nursing practices from the medical model and base it on nursing models. Watson’s theory of human caring can be used as a guide toform the framework for the theoretical aspects ofnursing in Turkey

Keywords

• Caring,nursing,model

BAKIM VE İYİLEŞMENİN KESİŞTİĞİ BİR MODEL: WATSON'IN İNSAN BAKIM MODELİ

Abstract

Hemşirelik modelleri hemşirelik uygulamalarını sistematize etmekiçin bir çerçeve oluşturmaktadır. Uluslararası alanda hemşireler giderek daha fazla hemşirelik modelleri ile çalışmayı, hemşireliği tıptanayırmanın ve meslek olmanın temel koşulu olarak görmeye başlamıştır. Bu makalenin amacı, Watson’ın “insan bakım modeli”nin ülkemizhemşireleri tarafından da anlaşılmasını sağlamaktır. Bu makale, insan bakım modelinin hangi düşünce sisteminden kaynaklandığına vetemel yapısını hangi kavramların oluşturduğuna ilişkin soruların cevaplarını içermektedir. Watson’ın insan bakım modelinin hemşirelikte uygulama, eğitim,araştırma ve yönetim olmak üzere her durumda kullanılabilir olduğugörülmüştür. Ülkemizde de hemşireler hemşirelik uygulamalarını tıbbi modelden ayırarak hemşirelik modellerine dayandırmalıdır. Watson’ın insan bakım modeli, ülkemizde hemşirelik bakımının kuramsalçerçevesinin oluşturulmasında bir rehber olarak kullanılabilir

Keywords

• Bakım,hemşirelik,model

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