Her hair and make up will be applied before the breakfast hour. She will then be escorted to the dining room where she will receive her medications that go with the meal and she will be served breakfast. Following breakfast she will be taken to the day room where she will spend the morning visiting with other patients and helping the others with projects that may interest her that day.

Lunch will be served and following lunch she will be checked to see if she needs a diaper change. If so that will be done, if not she will be encouraged to socialize until dinner. Dinner will be provided with her iron and other dinner medications.

After dinner she will receive her shower and be placed in her pajamas for the evening. The patient enjoys watching television, in particular the news shows. The nurse on duty will put her television on so that she may watch it until she is ready to go to bed.

At bedtime her diaper will be checked again and she will be assisted into bed.

All nursing staff members are encouraged to remember that the patient has dementia so she may say or think inappropriate things, however, she is to be treated with caring and compassion in every encounter.

She will be encouraged to participate in her own care as often and to the extent that she is able. This ability may change from day-to-day depending on her physical condition and her dementia at that time.

The goal of nursing with Watson's theory is centered around helping the patient gain a higher degree of harmony within the mind, body, and soul. It is achieved through caring transactions. Watson's ten carative factors, referred to as interventions of the theory, are presented...

It also involves the transpersonal caring relationship. Transpersonal caring is demonstrated in an event or actual caring occasion."
The patient will always be asked what she would like to wear that day and her choice will be honored as long as it is weather appropriate. She will determine what she eats each meal off of her plate.

That caring makes a difference to the patient's sense of well being. Caring may occur without curing but curing cannot occur without caring (Watson 2003). It is with that belief that nurses care for patients in the hope that nurses contribute to the cure or well-being of that patient."

CONCLUSION

The nursing staff has more contact with the patient than any other staff member, and will build a relationship with the patient due to that contact. It is important for the caring to follow Watson's theory and encompass the entire person so that the patient has a quality of life and feels capable and cared for.

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Charlotte Ingalls, Karen; (2003)the Living Tree of Nursing Theories.

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On Nursing Theories and Evidence.

Journal of Nursing Scholarship; June 22, 2001; Fawcett, Jacqueline Watson, Jean Neuman, Betty Walker, Patricia Hinton Fitzpatrick, Joyce J.;

Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Science.

Nursing Education Perspectives; November 1, 2002; Giguere, Barbara