​Caritas

Jean Watson's Caring Science has transformed how I treat people. I have adopted the processes in all aspects of my life, not just when dealing with my patients. I have incorporated these processes as a mother, as a wife, as a daughter, and as a nurse. Seeing people in all of their holistic glory has changed my life. These processes challenge us towards accepting one another without judgements or biases; that sometimes it is not about fixing what is wrong but about acknowledging and valuing one another as unique individuals. 

10 Caritas processes

1. Practicing loving-kindness and equanimity within context of caring consciousness.
2. Being authentically present and enabling, and sustaining the deep belief system and subjective life world of self       and one-being cared for.
3. Cultivating one’s own spiritual practices and transpersonal self, going beyond ego self.
4. Developing and sustaining a helping-trusting, authentic caring relationship.
5. Being present to, and supportive of the expression of positive and negative feelings.
6. Creatively using self and all ways of knowing as part of the caring process; engaging in artistry of caring-                 healing practices.
7. Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to wholeness and meaning, attempting to stay         within other’s frame of reference.
8. Creating healing environment at all levels, whereby wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity, and peace are                        potentiated.
9. Assisting with basic needs, with an intentional caring consciousness, administering ‘human care essentials,’              which potentiate alignment of mind-body-spirit, wholeness in all aspects of care.
​10. Opening and attending to mysterious dimensions of one’s life-death; soul care for self and the one-being-                  cared for; “allowing and being open to miracles.”
https://www.watsoncaringscience.org/files/PDF/watsons-theory-of-human-caring-core-concepts-and-evolution-to-caritas-processes-handout.pdf