Nursing and Caring Concepts in Watson’s Theory Doctor Watson’s descriptive theory of human caring was published in the year 1997 and comprises ten curative measures that help nurses when caring for their patients. In her response to the theory, Dr. Watson referred the model as a transpersonal relationship between the nurses and patients. According to Watson, transpersonal medical care is the capacity of a single human being to receive fellow human being’s expression of how they are feeling and the results of those feelings for an individual (Watson, 2002b). Since nursing can be identified as both an art and science, thus nursing care is taken to be more than a scripted therapeutic response about a patient. Watson expresses her theory by stating that the more feelings to an individual patient, that a nurse expresses, the more concrete the nursing and caring affect the recipients (Watson, 1989).
