Care is at the heart of the nurse's power to work with people in a respectful and therapeutic way. In the therapeutic relationship, the patient and the nurse come to know each other, so the relationship becomes healing because: it mobilizes hope for both the patient and the nurse; assist the client in using social, emotional, or spiritual resources; find an interpretation or understanding of the illness, symptoms, or emotions that is acceptable to the patient (Perry & Sams, 2014). Dr. Jane Watson, nursing theorist, describes the caring relationship in a spiritual sense. Sister Simone Roach, another nursing theorist, asks what nurses actually do when they care for them. This essay will describe and explain the nursing theories of Jean Watson and Simone Roach and how these are incorporated into the article "The Art of Nursing" written by Michelle Loewenstein. A number of nursing scholars have developed theories of nursing, due to its importance to the world of nursing. nursing practice (Perry & Sams, 2014). Sister Roach (1988) with her Human Act of Care describes that our ability to care is almost indestructible, because it is our way of being. It is the most reciprocal and authentic creation of humanism. In her nursing theory of care she defines six “Cs”: compassion, competence, trust, conscientiousness, commitment and behavior (Munro-Gilbert, 2013). Dr. Jean Watson defines ten carative or caritas factors of the healing process. (Alligood and Tomey, 2010, p. 95). The article “The Art of Nursing” reveals the behaviors and decisions of nurses who express caring. We will analyze and recognize their meaning through the ten carative factors indicated by Watson and the six "C"s of Sister Roach: Formation of the humanistic-altruistic value system: Practice...... half of the sheet... ... ./search.proquest.com.dproxy.library.dc-uoit.ca/docview/204600297?accountid=26375.McLaughlin, M. (2013, September 13). Health and Healing (1-20), Retrieved from DC Connect site: https://durhamcollege.desire2learn.com.Munro-Gilbert, P. (2013, October 11) Development of the Self I (1-11), Retrieved from DC Connection site: https://durhamcollege.desire2learn.com.Perry, A. G., & Sams, C. (2014). Care in nursing practice. In Potter, P. A., Perry, A. G., Ross-Kerr, J. C., & Wood, M. J. (Eds.), Canadian foundations of nursing (262-289). Toronto, ON: Elsevier Canada.Roach, S. M. (1988). Ontology of care: ethics and the appeal of suffering. International Journal for Human Caring, 2(2), 30-33.Tiner, T. (2011, March 8). Jean Watson Interview 1_Theory of the science of care. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFPC33OuyBo&list=PLQp9pKWPRgX0ifKBH8Y8 gPVWj_XUPcJCR.
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