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Jean Watson, PhD; RN; AHN-BC, FAAN Advanced Holistic Nurse -Board certified (AHN-BC)

Distinguished Professor of Nursing; Murchison-Scoville Endowed Chair in Caring Science

Jean.Watson@ucdenver.edu

Dr. Watson has vast experience in several areas of nursing but is most widely known for her leadership and scholarship in the area of nursing caring theory and Caring Science.  She is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden. She holds six (6) Honorary Doctoral Degrees, including 3 International Honorary Doctorates (Sweden, United Kingdom, and Quebec, Canada).As author /co-author of over 12 books on caring, and caring theory and philosophy and science of caring. Her latest books range from empirical measurements of caring, to new postmodern philosophies of caring and healing. Her most recent book is Caring Science as Sacred Science (2005) Philadelphia: FA Davis. These latest works, both AJN books of the year awards, seek to bridge paradigms as well as point toward transformative models for the 21st century.

Degree Awarding Institution Field of Study Graduation Date
Certification as AHN-BC Advanced Holistic Nursing –Board Advanced Holistic Nurse 2000-Current
Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Educational Psychology and Counseling, 1969-73
Graduate study University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Graduate School		 Social and Clinical Psychology 1969-70
M.S. University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, CO Psychiatric mental-health Nursing; Minor: Psychology 1964-66
B.S. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Nursing 1962-64
R.N. Lewis-Gale College of Nursing, Roanoke, VA Diploma in nursing 1958-61
  1. Watson, J. (2007- 08 in process) Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health Sciences. Second Revised Edition. NY: Springer.
  2. 2. Watson, J. (2007 in print). Nursing. The Philosophy and Science of Caring. Revised & Updated Edition Boulder: University Press of Colorado
  3. Tribute to the theorists: Jean Watson over the Years. Nursing Science Quarterly. (2007).20(1):7. Contributed by Roxie Foster.
  4. Watson, J. (2007) Theoretical questions and concerns: Responses from a Caring Science Framework. Nursing Science Quarterly. 20th anniversary edition.Vol. 20(1):13-15.
  5. Watson, J. (2007 in print). Watson' theory of Human caring and subjective living experiences: Disciplinary guide to professional nursing practice. Brazilian Clinical Nursing Journal: Texto and Contexto.
  6. Nelson, J. Watson, J., Drenkard, K. Rigotti, G. (2006 submitted, under review) Development of Caring Factor Survey ©, an instrument to measure patient' perceptions of caring. Journal of Nursing Measurement Under Review.
  7. Watson, J. (2006).Caring theory as ethical guide to administrative and clinical practices. Journal of Nursing Administration. 8(1):87- 93. [(reprinted from NAQ (2000). 30(1):48-55)].
  8. Watson, J. (2006). Frontline and Backstage Caring: American Nurse/World-wide Nurses..American Nurse Today.1(1): 24-28.
  9. Watson, J. (2006). Spiritual pilgrimage as Caritas Action in the world. Journal of Holistic Nursing. 24(4):289-296.
  10. Watson, J. (2006). Carative factors - Caritas processes guide to professional nursing Danish Clinical Nursing Journal 20(3), 21-27l. 
  11. Watson, J (2006). Can an ethic of caring be maintained? Journal of Advanced Nursing 54(3):257-259.
  12. Hemsley, MS, Glass, N., Watson, J. (2006). Taking the eagle' view: Using Watson' conceptual model to investigate the extraordinary and transformative experiences of nurse healers. Journal of Holistic Nursing Practice, 20(2): 85-94.
  13. Watson, J. (2006) Caring theory as ethical guide to administrative and clinical practices. Nursing Administrative Quarterly. 30(1), 48-55.
  • Indirect practice related to advising and guiding projects in Caring theory as guide to advancing and transforming professional nursing practice.