¶ … Jean Watson has shed much light in terms of the relationship between the idea of "caring" and the healing process. Watson developed a theory that included ten factors of caring and how they can practically be applied in a nursing setting. It is important for nursing students to understand an somehow incorporate these ideas into their own personal approach to nursing. The purpose of this essay is to examine an article that examined how Watson's ten components are evaluated by students in relation to their instruction. I will relate this article to important nursing concepts, and how it is important to my own personal approach to nursing. Wade & Kasper (2006) examined the importance of caring in nursing by identifying a means to measure the efficacy in teaching this theory in the article I examined. They assumed that caring is now...

The idea of caring is often very subjective and a slippery topic to apply fastened logic towards, and so a method of testing this knowledge was developed by these authors.
The authors of this article developed an instrument to test the knowledge levels of nursing students after being introduced to Watson's theory and specifically the ten carative factors and descriptions that are at the center of her transpersonal caring nursing theory. They suggested that new process be implemented to understand how students were grasping with Watson's theory. This article " described the development and testing of an instrument to measure nursing students' perceptions…