Happy Valentine's Day
#4weeksoflove
Week 2
What an amazingly beautiful day. I took advantage of an opportunity to sit and soak up some of the rays of sunshine. Felt so amazing. The weather is supposed to change tomorrow with some winter weather heading this way. The joys of living in Oklahoma. If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma just wait a while because it will change. It will.
Today, I noticed a marquee on one of the local churches and it read, "Love, not time, heals all wounds." Wow. This is pretty powerful if you think about it. What I begin to think about was nursing, health care and wounds. Physiological wounds do need "time" to regenerate at a cellular level for healing. What about the wounds that are not seen?
We are not able to see the hurt within others and sometimes these wounds are the most damaging. So on this topic of love I wanted to think about how nurses can be better lovers. Not that kind of lover...the lovers of others in caritas type caring. Caritas means the Christian love of humankind. Jean Watson, the nursing theorist who is responsible for the theory of transpersonal caring, posits, "love as an ethic" and ontology as the starting point for nursing's existence, broad societal mission, and the basis for caring-healing practices" (Watson, 2005; George, 2011, pp. 455). Love is necessary for healing. Healing of the physiological and psychosocial AND nurses are ambassadors for administering this kind of love in our practice. So, let us practice being better lovers.
Tuesday I will be leaving to head to Aqaba, Jordan. Jean Watson is hosting the Watson Caring Science and Middle Eastern Nurses Uniting in Human Caring conference and my research partners and I have been blessed with the opportunity to present research on Incivility in Nursing at this conference. Way cool huh? So, the next post will be filled with stories about my adventures. Talk to you soon.
Love Always,
NurseNicelyRN
Watson, J. (2005). Caring science as sacred science. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis.
George, J. B. (2011). Nursing Theories: The base for professional nursing practice (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
We are not able to see the hurt within others and sometimes these wounds are the most damaging. So on this topic of love I wanted to think about how nurses can be better lovers. Not that kind of lover...the lovers of others in caritas type caring. Caritas means the Christian love of humankind. Jean Watson, the nursing theorist who is responsible for the theory of transpersonal caring, posits, "love as an ethic" and ontology as the starting point for nursing's existence, broad societal mission, and the basis for caring-healing practices" (Watson, 2005; George, 2011, pp. 455). Love is necessary for healing. Healing of the physiological and psychosocial AND nurses are ambassadors for administering this kind of love in our practice. So, let us practice being better lovers.
Tuesday I will be leaving to head to Aqaba, Jordan. Jean Watson is hosting the Watson Caring Science and Middle Eastern Nurses Uniting in Human Caring conference and my research partners and I have been blessed with the opportunity to present research on Incivility in Nursing at this conference. Way cool huh? So, the next post will be filled with stories about my adventures. Talk to you soon.
Love Always,
NurseNicelyRN
Watson, J. (2005). Caring science as sacred science. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis.
George, J. B. (2011). Nursing Theories: The base for professional nursing practice (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
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