Journal of Sacred Work

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   Yvonne Ginez-Gonzales

   June 1, 2008

   I want to take the opportunity in this open forum to share a moment I had with this last week with you. I was organizing my desk at home the other day and while going through some of my papers from school I came across what I thought was just a scrap of paper with some notes jotted down on it (something I will often do to remind myself of things). However, on this piece of paper I had written myself a little note that said, “Don’t forget the following ten core factors.”
   I had bulleted the following from someone who had given a presentation in class using her theory as a framework:
   Core carative factors include the following original work:
   • Formation of a Humanistic-altruistic system of values;
   • Instillation of faith-hope;
   • Cultivation of sensitivity to one’s self and to others;
   • Development of a helping-trusting, human caring relationship;
   • Promotion and acceptance of the expression of positive and negative feelings;
   • Systematic use of a creative problem-solving caring
   process;
   • Promotion of transpersonal teaching-learning;
   • Provision for a supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal, and spiritual environment;
   • Assistance with gratification of human needs;
   • Allowance for existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces
   As I read the words I wrote, I remembered that I had written them down because they are words that seem to reflect how I want to practice nursing. You may have heard them before and or are very familiar with them. They are the words of Dr. Jean Watson. Dr. Watson identified ten carative factors as the core processes involved in the professional practice of caring. According to Dr. Watson there is a harmony between science and the humanities that acknowledges a deeper value of quality of living and dying that involves ethical, physical, moral and psychological components. On the day that I wrote her bullets down, I knew that her Theory of Caring is a philosophy that I would like to personally utilize as a foundation in my future nursing practice. Therefore, I share them with you today. She is an amazing figure in nursing and gave me a whole new way of defining what a caring nurse is.

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