Unitary Caring Science: The Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing takes a profound look at conscious, intentional, reverential caring-healing as sacred practice/praxis and as a necessary turn for survival. Jean Watson posits Unitary Caring Science for the evolved Caritas-conscious practitioner and scholar. A detailed historical discussion of the evolution from Caring Science toward Unitary Caring Science reflects the maturing of the discipline, locating the nursing phenomena of wholeness within the unitary field paradigm. An exploration of praxis as informed moral practice results in an expanded development of the ten Caritas processes, resulting in a comprehensive value-guide to critical Caritas literacy and ontological Caritas praxis.   Watson writes for the Caritas Conscious Nurse™ or the Caritas Conscious Scholar/Practitioner/Educator on the journey toward the deeper caring-healing dimensions of life. Unitary Caring Science offers a personal-professional path of authenticity, bringing universals of Love, Energy, Spirit, Infinity of Purpose, and Meaning back into nurses lives and their life’s work. Unitary Caring Science serves as a continuing, evolving message to the next generation of nurse scholars and healing-health practitioners committed to a praxis informed by mature disciplinary consciousness.   Individual customers will also receive a secure link to select copyrighted teaching videos and meditations on www.watsoncaringscience.org. “Dr. Watson is THE caring Science Scholar and all who read this will benefit from her emerging ideas, creativity, and advancement of caring science. The depth of the knowledge and scholarship in this book are grounded in all ways of knowing, including aesthetics, empirical, ethical, metaphysical, and personal.” —Marian C. Turkel, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN   “ [ Unitary Caring Science ] will serve as a comprehensive guide to the study and practice of Watson’s perspective of Unitary Caring Science. . . . This is an important book.” —Jacqueline Fawcett, RN, PhD, ScD (hon), FAAN, ANEF   Dr. Jean Watson has been recognized as a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing, its highest honor. She 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 sixteen years. She also founded the original Center for Human Caring in Colorado. She is founder and director of the nonprofit organization Watson Caring Science Institute(www.watsoncaringscience.org). Watson is a widely published author and has received many awards, including fourteen honorary doctoral degrees from around the world. Her theory of human caring and model of caring science are used across the globe.   Unitary Caring Science The Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing By Jean Watson University Press of Colorado Copyright © 2018 Jean Watson All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-60732-755-4 Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, PREFACE, BACKGROUND: PERSONAL PAUSE, Part I, CHAPTER ONE The Philosophy of Science: Starting Point/Inverting the Paradigm, Part II, CHAPTER TWO From Caring Science to Unitary Caring Science: The Maturing of the Discipline of Nursing, CHAPTER THREE Background: Caritas and Theory of Transpersonal Caring, CHAPTER FOUR The Unitary Quantum Shift: New Consciousness as Guide to Disciplinary Development, CHAPTER FIVE From Ontological Competencies to Caritas-Veritas Literacy, CHAPTER SIX Presence: Caritas-Veritas Literacy, CHAPTER SEVEN Arts and Humanities as Archetypes for Caring-Veritas Literacy: Nurse as Ontological Artist and Architect, CHAPTER EIGHT Integrative Nursing: Unitary Healing Principles, CLINICAL EXEMPLARS Living Examples of Caritas Praxis in the Field: From Clinical Agencies and Sites in the USA and Other Countries, Part III, CHAPTER NINE Caritas-Veritas: Toward Unitary Caring Science Praxis, CHAPTER TEN Unitary Paradigm — Caritas-Veritas: Evoking Paradigm III Words, EPILOGUE Un-Concluding Postscript Fragments: Metaphysics and Unitary Caring Science, APPENDIX A Personal Background: Entrée into Caring Theory/Unitary Caring Science, APPENDIX B Overview of Jean Watson's Previous Caring Science Theory Books, APPENDIX C Charter of International Caritas Consortium, APPENDIX D History of Hospital Sponsors — Sites of ICC, APPENDIX E Watson Caring Science Institute, REFERENCES, INDEX, CHAPTER 1 The Philosophy of Science Starting Point/Inverting the Paradigm * * * STARTING POINT: the starting point will dictate where you end up. Inverting the Paradigm Behind everything physical in the world lies the unseen substance of Spirit ... God is the unseen source and substance of everything that exists. Daily Word, January 8, 2017, 21 A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1955, 43 Inverting the Paradigm • From physi