Presentation
Embracing Caritas Literacy- Caritas Processes and Consciousness of the Expert Nurse in Unitary Human Caring Science .pdf
Watson Caring Science Institute (WCSI) Post Doctoral Senior Scholar Presentation
(2018)
Abstract
Embracing Caritas Literacy: Caritas Processes and Consciousness of the Expert Nurse in Unitary Human Caring Science
Joyce B. Perkins PhD, RN, AHN-BC, CHTP
Newman, Sime, and Cocoran-Perry (1991) wrote of the particulate/determinate, interactive/integrative, and unitary/transformative paradigms of nursing in their article entitled Focus of the Discipline. Newman (1994) later, articulated Health as Expanding Consciousness. From this article and book, perspectives were sorted into three paradigms or worldviews of consciousness, all embedded within the being, feeling, knowing, doing, and becoming of the nurse as a unitary whole. Further, Watson and Smith (2001) merged Rogerian (1971) concepts of unitary human beings with caring science (Watson, 2001) to become unitary caring science.
Newman, Smith, Pharris, and Jones revisited the focus of the discipline in 2008. Seven unitary concepts of: pattern, meaning, consciousness, mutual process, caring, presence, and health emerged as central to a unitary caring science and the practice of nursing.
This presentation describes how Watson’s (2008) Caritas Processes ® help to shape emerging aspects of a nurse’s conscious heart into patterns of an expert nurse (Benner, 1982). The virtual domain of the quantum (energy) field, as first described in nursing by Roger’s (1970) is the ground of being in the presence of an expert nurse. Healing happens as coherence of frequency in the heart and mind patterns of the nurse, radiate into the field of practice, with a caring consciousness. Information is distributed throughout that field instantaneously and pan dimensionally, rather than linearly. The intuition or tacit knowing of the expert nurse in coherent processing is attuned to that field when in mutual relationship with a person. Healing happens as attention and intention bring forth the highest good in that nursing situation.
Virtuosity (Perkins, 2017, submitted) develops in nursing practice within the unitary/transformative paradigm as caritas literacy (Lee, Palmieri, & Watson, 2017) unfolds. The social impact of a caring consciousness built within individuals is shared resonantly within the collective consciousness of the whole.
Disciplines
Publication Date
Summer June, 2018
Location
Boulder, Colorado
Citation Information
Joyce B Perkins. "Embracing Caritas Literacy- Caritas Processes and Consciousness of the Expert Nurse in Unitary Human Caring Science .pdf" Watson Caring Science Institute (WCSI) Post Doctoral Senior Scholar Presentation (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joyce-perkins/18/