ASSIGNMENT # 3

LYKA JANE T. TARNATE

BSN-1B

1. Review your values and beliefs in your own philosophy of person, environment,
health, and nursing and compare your beliefs with Watson’s 10 caritas processes.

PERSON
I see the individual as a one-of-a-kind being that symbolizes an open system with
subsystems that are influenced by genetics and the environment. Needs drive the individual,
who is adaptable, seeks homeostasis, and interacts with the environment. When a person's
basic requirements aren't addressed, their health can suffer. When a person's health situation
deteriorates to the point of sickness or illness, he or she seeks medical aid in the form of health
care.

ENVIRONMENT
The environment either promotes or interferes with well-being. The physical
environment (temperature, air, water, etc.) and the nonphysical environment (family-
parenting, culture-beliefs/values/attitudes, social-support/neighbourhood, churches, other
groups, employment, housing, schools, and healthcare) are all components of the environment.
People live in an environment in which all physical and non-physical components interact with
one another.

HEALTH
I believe that health is a changing condition of being along the health-illness continuum.
It is influenced by health-related thoughts and behaviours. A person's physical, physiological,
emotional, spiritual, and social well-being all fall under the scope of health.
NURSING
Nursing, in my opinion, is defined by having insight into the needs and situations of
patients, viewing each individual as a unique creature, and treating each person/patient with
the compassion and respect they deserve. One of the aims of nursing, in my opinion, is to assist
patients in achieving, maintaining, and regaining health.

From my emerging perspective, I tried to make explicit nursing's values, knowledge, and
practices of human caring that are geared toward subjective inner healing processes and the
life world of the experiencing person, requiring unique caring-healing arts and a framework
called "carative factors," which complemented conventional medicine but stood in stark
contrast to "curative factors." At the same time, this emerging philosophy and theory of human
caring sought to balance the curative orientation of medicine, giving nursing its unique
disciplinary, scientific, and professional standing with itself and the public.

Caritas is a Latin word that honours the preciousness and fragility of human caring by
integrating true human caring with love and higher ethical values. The theory's ten caritas
processes are enshrined in a framework of loving science as sacred science. The ten caritas
processes offer words to the reality, theory, and practice of human care, which nurses rarely
notice or appreciate in the midst of practicing demands. Institutional demands and agendas can
lead to hasty, scripted, and formulaic approaches to "caring," which is frequently perceived as a
slogan. Theory-guided practice of truly sincere, human-to-human-caring receives little attention
in mainstream settings.

2. Create a list of caring behaviours in your own field of studies, and compare your list with
the caring behaviours from Dorothy Johnson’s Model.

My list of caring behaviours includes attentive listening, consoling, honesty, patience,

accountability, offering information so the patient may make an educated decision, touch,

sensitivity, respect, and calling the patient by name.

 Nurses' and patients' perceptions may have an impact on caring behaviours. Cultural
contexts, the patient's diagnosis, the type of institution, and the nurse's and patient's ages may
all have an impact on these participants. Caring behaviours may be "at odds" with the nurses'
current working environment. Nurses' experiences, self-esteem, beliefs, and working conditions
all have an impact on their caring behaviours, according to the study.

Dorothy Johnson is one of the prominent nursing theorists whose behavioural system
model is frequently implemented in various clinical and healthcare settings. The caring
behaviours from Dorothy Johnson’s model are "orderly, purposeful, and predictable, and
sufficiently stable and recurrent to be amenable to description and explanation."

Johnson's behavioural systems approach is useful in nursing and medicine, in my opinion.

Nurses can utilize it to learn more about their patients and to broaden their diagnostic
possibilities. This theory is always in favour of advancement and bettering one's health. On the
other hand, it includes a number of standards and subsystems that enable nurses to provide
care to their patients and communicate with their families.

Caring behaviours might also be influenced by the methods used for assigning nurses to
different patients. Another factor that might affect the caring behaviours of nurses is a lack of
time and support. Although it has been reported that nurses might care too much and get over-
involved with their patients to the extent of visiting them on off days or buying them gifts, most
researchers agree that lack of time and lack of caring support have significant effects on nurses'
caring behaviours.

The techniques for assigning nurses to various patients may also have an impact on caring
behaviours. Lack of time and support are two more factors that may influence nurses' caring
behaviours. Although it has been suggested that nurses care too much for their patients and
become too connected with them, such as visiting them on their days off or buying them gifts,
most researchers believe that a lack of time and caring support have a substantial impact on
nurses' caring behaviours.