Jean Watson, born in 1940, is an American nurse theorist and nursing professor best known for her theory of human caring. Born in Welch, West Virginia, she trained at the Lewis Gale School of Nursing, earned her degrees at the University of Colorado and taught there from 1973. She served as dean of its College of Nursing from 1983 to 1990, founded the Center for Human Caring in 1986 and later the Watson Caring Science Institute in 2008. She is a past president of the National League for Nursing and the author or co-author of more than thirty books, beginning with Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring in 1979, and her caring theory is used in hospitals and nursing schools around the world.
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