Jean Watson's Theory Of Human Caring

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According to the author and how she portrayed the movie there was no doctor patient relationship on the other hand good nurse-patient relationship. This movie shows that every person in the healthcare team is an important aspect when it comes to patient’s care. Each professional has something beneficial to the patient with all information put into consideration. When preparing patients care plan, one of Jean Watson’s theory of human caring is that there should be development of a helping, trusting human, caring relationship. The only person that did provide this for Vivian was the nurse “Susie”. Through the authors perspective you can see that nurse Susie was able to meet some of Jean Watson’s theory of human Caring “Promotion of transpersonal teaching learning, assisting with gratification and patients’ needs and cultivation of sensitivity to one’s self and to others. The doctors did not in any way practice health promotion which WHO defined as the process of equipping people to have control over, and to improve, physical, emotional, and social health (WHO, 1986). What the author is portraying is that the doctors are suppose to help Vivian attain high-quality, longer live free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death even though she is on stage IV ovarian cancer. …show more content…
Protective isolation evaluated in the patient with cancer involve the placement of the patient in a single room, the use of clean gowns, gloves and mask for anyone entering the room and also for the control of air quality. This is aimed at preventing infection in neutropenic patients. In the movie, you can see that she was put in protective isolation but one of the doctors almost forgot to wear gloves before entering the isolation room. That is an act of carelessness and almost violated patients right to