Education
   ● Undergraduate & graduate in Nursing and Psychiatric-mental health 
    nursing
   ● Doctorate in educational psychology and counseling
   ● Professor and Dean of Nursing
   ● Founder of the Center for Human Caring at CU Health Sciences
   ● President of the National League for Nursing
   ● Founder of  the Watson Caring Science Institute (WCSI)
                       (Fitne, 1989; Smith & Parker, 2015)
   Influences
   ● Theory of Human Caring
   ● Personal views
   ● Academic views
   ● Balance
   ● Personal life
   (Smith & Parker, 2015)
                                         (Grove, 2019)
    Metaparadigm: Nurse’s Role
     ● Caring persona
     ● Authentically present
     ● Compassion and sensitivity
     ● Nursing is more than just a job
     ● Reflective and meditative approach              ("4 Essential Skills That Will Make You The Best Nurse")
     ● Transformation of tasks into “Healing Interactions”
    (Smith & Parker, 2015; Watson Caring Science Institute, 2010)
   Metaparadigm: Patient
  ● Co-Creates the caring relationship with the nurse
  ● An integrated whole
     ○ Unique individual needs
     ○ Unique perspective of the world, belief system and values
  ● Connected to the nurse through a transpersonal caritas energy field
     (Fitne, 1989; Smith & Parker, 2015; Watson Caring Science Institute, 2010)
  Metaparadigm: Environment
   ● Transpersonal caritas energetic field 
     model
   ● Therapeutic environment
   ● Nurse as environment
   ● Everything in the universe is 
     connected
     (Smith & Parker, 2015; Watson, 2018; 
    Watson Caring Science Institute, 2010)
                                                             (Dale, 2019)