User talk:Brucejoan

Jean Watson lived with her husband in Boulder, Colorado. She is affiliated with the academic world there. She has grown offspring. She travels to universities to speak as a guest orator. Would you not like to briefly describe the principle tenets of the phrenomenalogical nursing theory she propounds? And the inspirational observations she made with Australian Aboriginal folks that led to the paradigm shift from exchange/communication based nursing theories, vis-a-vis invalid assumption of external verification of universal behavioural norms? Careoline (talk) 16:24, 17 June 2008 (UTC) Dr. Jean Watson is Distinguished Professor of Nursing and holds an endowed Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Watson has earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing and psychiatric-mental health nursing and holds her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Counseling from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Clinical nurses and academic programs throughout the world use her published works on the philosophy and theory of human caring and the art and science of caring in nursing. Dr. Watson’s caring philosophy is used to guide new models of caring and healing practices. She is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including five (5) Honorary Doctoral Degrees. Her latest books range from empirical measurements of caring, to new postmodern philosophies of caring and healing; these latest works seek to bridge paradigms as well as point toward transformative models for the 21 st century. 216.183.133.85 (talk) 16:29, 17 June 2008 (UTC)