Verified Document

Community Health Strategies The Leading Research Proposal

The lived world of the experiencing person is not well-known by external and internal notions of time and space, but shapes its own time and space. "Nursing is a human science of persons and human health-illness experiences that are mediated by professional, personal, scientific, esthetic, and ethical human care transactions. The process of nursing is human care" (Fawcett, 2002). The main concept of Watson's theory is transpersonal human caring which is best understood within the concepts of three subsidiary concepts: life, illness and health.

Human life is defined as spiritual, mental and physical being which is continuous in time and space.

Illness is not automatically a disease. Illness is turmoil or disharmony with a person's inner self or soul at some level or disharmony within the spheres of the person, either consciously or unconsciously.

Health refers to the unity and harmony that exists within a person's mind, body, and soul.

Transpersonal human caring and caring transactions are those scientific, professional, ethical, creative and personalized giving-receiving behaviors and responses between nurse and patient that allow for contact between the subjective world of the experiencing persons through physical, mental, or spiritual routes or some combination thereof. The goal of nursing is to help people gain a higher degree of harmony within the mind, body, and soul. This generates self-knowledge, self-reverence, self-healing, and self-care processes while increasing diversity. Nursing interventions or carative factors that are involved include: humanistic-altruistic system of values, faith-hope, sensitivity to self and others, helping and trusting, human care relationships, expressing positive and negative feelings, creative problem-solving caring process, transpersonal teaching and learning, supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal, and spiritual environment, human needs assistance and existential-phenomenological-spiritual forces (Fawcett, 2002).

Using Watson's theory in order to address the problem of obesity it would be necessary for...

Parts of this document are hidden

View Full Document
svg-one

It is necessary to treat a person's mind, body and soul in order to attain success. People who are obese are very vulnerable to the stigmas that society applies to them along with the health issues that arise. It is necessary to not only help these people to control their weight, but they also need help in dealing with the emotional issues that are also involved.
Nurse developed programs that would allow obese people to deal with their physical ailments along with their emotional issues would be ideal. Helping patients improve their overall health, both physical and mental would go a long way in allowing these people to overcome the issues that they are dealing with. Watson's theory of treating the whole person and not just their symptoms is the ideal way to help these people overcome their weight problems. It has been determined that not all weight problems are genetic in nature some of them are emotional issues and unless dealt with the person will not be able to overcome their weight problems.

Implementing teaching strategies that utilize Watson's theories of human caring will help to ensure that nurses are trained in the best methods possible to treat their patients as whole people. It must be recognized that the problem of obesity goes much deeper than just the physical symptoms that can be seen. All issues that effective a person must be treated so that success can be assured.

References

Fawcett, Jacqueline. (2002). Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring. Retrieved July 28, 2009,

from DeSales University Web site: http://www4.desales.edu/~sey0/watson.html

Obesity. (2009). Retrieved July 28, 2009, from MedicineNet.com Web site:

http://www.medicinenet.com/obesity_weight_loss/article.htm

U.S. Obesity Rate Rising. (2007). Retrieved July 28, 2009, from Web site:

http://www.annecollins.com/weight_health/obesity-rate.htm

What Are the Leading Health Indicators? (n.d.). Retrieved July 28, 2009, from Health People

2010 Web site: http://www.healthypeople.gov/LHI/lhiwhat.htm

Sources used in this document:
References

Fawcett, Jacqueline. (2002). Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring. Retrieved July 28, 2009,

from DeSales University Web site: http://www4.desales.edu/~sey0/watson.html

Obesity. (2009). Retrieved July 28, 2009, from MedicineNet.com Web site:

http://www.medicinenet.com/obesity_weight_loss/article.htm
http://www.annecollins.com/weight_health/obesity-rate.htm
2010 Web site: http://www.healthypeople.gov/LHI/lhiwhat.htm
Cite this Document:
Copy Bibliography Citation

Related Documents

Dream Community Unlike the Popular
Words: 1330 Length: 4 Document Type: Term Paper

Older people could receive tax incentives to act as teachers to students in areas of expertise, or simply to help out as coaches or staff. Ideally, private educational institutions would be few, to ensure a lack of a drain of community resources from the public schools, although private schools could supplement student education for students with special needs that could not be met by the public system. Transportation Unless it was

Community College and School
Words: 966 Length: 6 Document Type: Chapter

ITT Technical Institute, Sylmar Campus, Computer and Electronics Engineering Technology (AAS), 15-MAR-04 / 05-MAR-06, Electronics and Communications Engineering Technology (BS) 13-MAR-06 / 02-DEC-07 Department of Education, This letter will describe my experiences at ITT and why I believe I was misled by the school and the victim of fraudulence. As a result of these experiences and the facts that have come to light regarding ITT (enclosed in the Appendix), I am seeking

Community My Community Is a Middle-Class Community
Words: 847 Length: 3 Document Type: Essay

Community My community is a middle-class community on the edges of a major city. The community is fairly well-integrated, with a number of races, ethnicities and nationalities represented. The community is not particularly close-knit, but there are common threads that bind the people here. For example, most of the people in the community are working class people. Most own or live in houses, with some apartments as well. For the most

Community Nursing
Words: 1396 Length: 4 Document Type: Case Study

Community Nursing The United States today represents not only wealth and opportunity for those within its borders, but also for those who enter it as immigrants. At least, this is the ideal. The unfortunate reality is that, more often than not, those seeking refuge from the conditions in their home countries often come into the states with very little. Many come in without even so much as the ability to speak

Community Health Nursing
Words: 1750 Length: 5 Document Type: Case Study

Community Health Nursing The contribution that a community healthcare unit can make towards enhancing population health and minimizing inequalities is strengthened by international law. Primary healthcare has demonstrated to have an independent impact on improving the status of health within the community. It also affects the reduction of health inequalities and the achievement of improved health outcomes at a relatively low cost and making the healthcare system sustainable. There is substantial

Community Policing
Words: 4655 Length: 17 Document Type: Research Paper

Community Policing Efficacy The Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act of 1994 heralded the beginning of a massive effort to reform policing strategies in the United States, in part through implementation of community-policing programs at the local level. Congress has allocated billions of federal dollars over the years since to support such efforts and by the end of the 20th century, close to 90% of all police departments serving communities

Sign Up for Unlimited Study Help

Our semester plans gives you unlimited, unrestricted access to our entire library of resources —writing tools, guides, example essays, tutorials, class notes, and more.

Get Started Now