Dear Eduardo,

Please find the following article .. but try to avoid the self-reported questionnaire!

https://www.watsoncaringscience.org/files/PDF/Final%20PDF%20of%20IAHC%20article_CFS%202010.Vol14.Iss3.pdf

Thank you!! You helped me a lot!!!

Thank you!! You helped me a lot!!!

more than welcome 

Congratulations Eduardo Tavares Gomes for posting relevant question. If you want to quantify Transpersonal Caring based on Jean Watson'scCaritas Clinical Process to assess compliance of nurses I suggest Watson’s 10 Carative Factors redefined as Caritas Processes as basis in the development of your questionnaire in Likert Scale format. Also, you can use the attachment of Abdulqadir J. Nashwan in the development of your questionnaire. Additionally you can conduct informal or unstructured interview to gather data that will provide basis to formulate indicators of Transpersonal Caring according to Jean Watson's Caritas Clinical Process. Here are the following Watson’s 10 Carative Factors redefined as Caritas Processes.

1. Practicing loving-kindness and equanimity within context of caring consciousness.

2. Being authentically present and enabling, and sustaining the deep belief system and subjective life world of self and one-being cared for.

3. Cultivating one’s own spiritual practices and transpersonal self, going beyond ego self.

4. Developing and sustaining a helping-trusting, authentic caring relationship.

5. Being present to, and supportive of the expression of positive and negative feelings.

6. Creatively using self and all ways of knowing as part of the caring process; engaging in artistry of caring-healing practices.

7. Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to wholeness and meaning, attempting to stay within other’s frame of reference.

8. Creating healing environment at all levels, whereby wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity, and peace are potentiated.

9. Assisting with basic needs, with an intentional caring consciousness, administering ‘human care essentials,’ which potentiate alignment of mind-body-spirit, wholeness in all aspects of care.

10. Opening and attending to mysterious dimensions of one’s life-death; soul care for self and the one-being-cared for; “allowing and being open to miracles.”

To assess compliance of nurses to Transpersonal Caring Jean Watson's Caritas Clinical Process, you can use the following reflective questions  lifted from Watson Caring Science Institute, 2010 

1. What is the meaning of caring for the person/families/myself?

2. How do I express my caring consciousness and commitment to my patients/clients? To colleagues? To the institution? To the community and larger world?

3. How do I define self, nurse, person, environment, health/healing, and nursing?

4. How do I make a difference in people’s life and suffering?

5. How do I increase the quality of people’s healing and dying process?

6. How can I be informed by the clinical caritas processes in my practice?

7. How can I be inspired by Watson’s caring theory in my practice?

You may also look at this article: A Pragmatic View of Jean Watson’s Caring Theory. You have unlmited literature from internet that are related and relevant to your study.

Good luck.

Thank you very much! 

I'm trying to create and validate an instrument to measure  the adherence to the Caritas Process using its ten itens!

Do you have this reference in pdf or a link?

How can we use this question?

I can't find instrument for your study. If you will post the title of your study and  statement of the problem or hypothesis in your study, RG colleagues can share their thoughts that will support you in the development of your instrument.

I've asked about the reference of this questionar you have cited, from the Institute, 2010. Do you have this article?

I've asked about the reference of this questionar you have cited, from the Institute, 2010. Do you have this article?

@Eduardo Tavares Gomes.  Hope the attached articles will help you. Good luck

I am currently doing a research study on the experience of caring with the intervention of therapeutic music.  I am using the Caritas Patient Score. This is a quantifiable tool developed by Jean Watson. Permission to use was granted. Jean Watson is also collecting a large data base of survey results that you could possibly participate in.

https://www.watsoncaringscience.org/watson-caritas-patient-score/

http://watsoncaringscience.org/files/PDF/measurement/WCPS_v_1.1_01_2013.pdf.

https://www.watsoncaringscience.org/caring-science-partners/criteria-for-participation-in-national-caring-research/

Good luck

Patricia, you help me a lot!!! How can I participate? We must pay to join? 

Is there any reference article about the development of this score ?

There is a fee to participate in her research study.  However, I just emailed her and asked permission to use her tool in my research project and she agreed. It is an expectation that I will share results with her.  All the information I got was from the links I shared. I have tons of stuff on her theory and analysis of it, but I think the measurement tool is too new. I haven't found anything in the literature about the actual score.

Good luck!

Patricia

@Eduardo Tavares Gomes. You can develop your own quantitative measurement tool from the literature and have your tool validated by expert. Cite all the literature that you will use in the development of your tool.