System Nursing Science: Caring Science and Unity with Jean Watson will explore how humanistic, relational, and ethical caring practices can unify nursing teams and enhance patient outcomes. The Nursing Grit session will focus on grit as a core component of nursing resilience and sustained clinical performance. Artificial Intelligence in nursing will focus on the importance of AI literacy in contemporary nursing practice. The final session of the year addresses the increasingly critical issue of workplace violence in healthcare.

Learning objective: By the end of this session the attendee will be able to apply foundational concepts of Caring Science & Unitary theories, & its relevance to system nursing science.

Learning outcome: By the end of session greater than 75% of participants will report increased knowledge of foundational concepts of Caring Science & Unitary theories and its relevance to system nursing science.

Speaker: Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, LL (AAN)
Founder, Director, Watson Caring Science Institute

Dr. Jean Watson is Distinguished Professor and Dean Emerita, University of Colorado Denver, College of Nursing Anschutz Medical Center campus, where she held the nation’s first endowed Chair in Caring Science for 16 years. She is founder of the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing; past President of the National League for Nursing; founding member of International Association in Human Caring and International Caritas Consortium. She is Founder and Director of the non-profit foundation, Watson Caring Science Institute (www.watsoncaringscience.org). In 2013 Dr. Watson was inducted as a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing, its highest honor.

She is a widely published author and recipient of many national/international awards and honors, including: Life Time Achievement Award, International Sigma Theta Tau; The Fetzer Institute Norman Cousins Award, in recognition of her commitment to developing; maintaining and exemplifying relationship-centered care practices; an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia; a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden; The Hildebrand Center for Compassion in Medicine Award Notre Dame University; Academy Integrative Medicine and Healing Award for pioneering work in Caring Science; Japanese International Society of Caring and Peace Chair; Honorary member Global Academy Holistic Nursing..  She holds sixteen (16) Honorary Doctoral Degrees, including 13 International Honorary Doctorates (E. G. Sweden, United Kingdom, Spain, British Colombia and Quebec, Canada, Japan, Turkey, Peru and Colombia, S. America, Ireland).

Dr. Watson’s caring philosophy and Transpersonal Theory of Human Caring, and Caritas Processes of Caring Science are used to guide transformative models of caring education; and professional caring- healing practices for hospitals, nurses and patients alike, in diverse settings worldwide

At the University of Colorado, Dr. Watson held the title of Distinguished Professor of Nursing; the highest honor accorded its faculty for scholarly work. 

As author /co-author of over 30 books on caring, her latest books range from empirical measurements and international research on caring, mindful caring science practices, to new postmodern philosophies of caring and healing, philosophy and science of caring and caring science as sacred science and global advance in caring literacy. Her books have been AJN books of the year awards and seek to bridge paradigms as well as point toward transformative models for this 21^st century.