12) best represents the application that this author is able to use in a school setting, among many others. The ten healing factors described in Watson's Caring Theory include “humanistic-altruistic value system, faith-hope, sensitivity towards self and others, help-trust, human caring relationship, expression of positive and negative feelings, process of creative problem-solving care, transpersonal teaching-learning, supportive, protective and/or corrective mental, physical, social and spiritual environment, assistance to human needs and existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces. (Watson, 1988, p. 75) Using this application in nursing practice enables both art and science. The use of evidence-based practices that reflect the scientific approach, versus the use of intuition and “care-healing modalities (to) correspond to the provision of comfort measures.” (Cara, n.d., p. 8) While no theory can fully incorporate practice, Watson's Caring Lens provides the best guidance for the psychosocial, spiritual, and physical care of both patient and patient.
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