A concept analysis of Watson's nursing Caritas process

Abstract

Aim:The main objective of this analysis is to give an understanding of Watson's nursing Caritas as a concept.Design: Watson's nursing Caritas is an abstract concept, and difficult to define and operationalize because of its philosophical nature. Watson's nursing Caritas develops a clear relationship between care, caring factors, and the processes of human life. Methods:We used Walker and Avant's method. PubMed, Scopus, Ovid, EBSCO, Science Direct, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and ProQuest were searched."Caritas process" and "Watson's caring theory" were searched. In the primary search, 883 articles were found, but eventually, 25 articles were included in the study. Results:We define Watson's nursing Caritas as the process based on caring consciousness, engaging in reliable human caring relationships for healing support, integrity, and development of humanity that alters the concept of caring into a higher ethical commitment inspired by responsibility for others, and different meanings, including kindness, compassion, joyfulness, and peacefulness and leads to the establishment of caring behavior in clinical Watson's nursing Caritas, thus leading to improving performance. Conclusion:Clinical nursing Caritas enables nurses to develop an effective human being relationship between nurse-client-family, and ultimately achieve a common experience and perception of caring.

Establishment of a Geriatric Nursing Curriculum with Human Caring by Situational Simulation

“…As nursing is a profession that involves service, many nursing experts have the same view of the geriatric nursing curriculum, namely, that teachers should include teaching content to develop nursing students' sense of human caring (Markey et al, 2021) with a focus on quality (Li et al, 2022). Nurses' behaviour is established in the learning process of a professional nursing curriculum in the classroom, and their ability to care is improved due to their common experience and perception of care (Akbari & Nasiri, 2022). Therefore, nursing teachers should integrate targeted nursing teaching reform, human caring and love into learning tasks, improve nursing students' emotional intelligence and ability to communicate and empathize with patients, thereby enhancing their human caring ability (Watson, 2018;Wang et al, 2020) Furthermore, the curriculum construction concept, content, evaluation method and teaching effect of this study echo those of previous studies.…”

“…Human caring nursing is based on a clear caring relationship, both in clinical care and in life, transforming the concept of care into a higher moral commitment and stimulating nurses' responsibility for others. Therefore, the integration of the human caring theory into the professional nursing curriculum effectively strengthens nursing students' human caring ability as it includes kindness, compassion, happiness, harmony, etc., and nursing tasks infused with caring behaviour (Akbari & Nasiri, 2022).…”