The theories of Florence Nightingale and Jean Watson provide a framework for the caring work of nurses. Ironically, this caring profession struggles with bullying. Bullying has both physiological and psychological ramifications for the person being bullied and a negative impact on the organization and patient care. Strategies to address bullying include education, developing codes of acceptable...

IDeM-MRS is a model with formal rules to manage the cooperation of multi-robot systems, if it is applied in tasks execution. This formalism is completely based on learning social models of real individuals and efficiently coordinates the group allowing knowledge assimilation and accommodation through experiences exchange among the group components. Some issues are particularly investigated, suc...

Jean Watson had planned to write a book about an integrated curriculum for a baccalaureate curriculum in nursing. Instead, she developed a novel structure for basic nursing processes, which was published in the bookNursing: ThePhilosophy and Science of Caring (Watson, 1979). The work presented in that book solved some of Watson’s conceptual and empirical problems about nursing and formed the fo...

Jean Watson, PhD. RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, is distinguished professor of nursing and Murchinson-Scoville Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Denver and Anschutz Medical Center, and founder and executive director of the Watson Caring Science Institute, The only true standard of greatness of any civilization is our sense of social and moral responsibility in translating material wealth...

Objective: To relate the empathy with the Theory of the Human Care, from Jean Watson, in the current context of Nursing. Methods: Theoretical and reflective essay that proposes a discussion about empathy and its relation with the theory of the human care. Results: It is presented the Clinical Caritas process and each element of care, in order to propose and discuss the connections with empathy ...

An especially dynamic area of discussion within nursing ethics is the philosophy of caring. The work on moral development by Harvard educator Carol Gilligan in her book, In a Different Voice, is pivotal in this discussion (see IV B, Cooper 1989). Jean Watson, a nurse at the University of Colorado Center for Human Caring, also has written extensively on the philosophy of caring. She states that ...

Stephen E. Schauer, Teresa A. Golden, Delwin S. Merchant, Biranchi N. Patra, Jean D. Lang, Sumita Ray, Bulbul Chakravarti, Deb Chakravarti, and Animesh Ray Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA and Keck Graduate Institute, 535 Watson Drive, Claremont, CA 91711, USA Address communication to: Animesh Ray, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA 91711; Phone: (909...

Stephen E. Schauer, Teresa A. Golden, Delwin S. Merchant, Biranchi N. Patra, Jean D. Lang, Sumita Ray, Bulbul Chakravarti, Deb Chakravarti, and Animesh Ray Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA and Keck Graduate Institute, 535 Watson Drive, Claremont, CA 91711, USA Address communication to: Animesh Ray, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA 91711; Phone: (909...