Saint Mary’s University

SCHOOL OF HEALTH and NATURALSCIENCES

Nursing Department
Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya

Nursing Care Management 100

Assignment 2- 1st term

Biography of Margaret Jean Herman Watson

Born and grew up in the small town of Welch, West Virginia.

Youngest in (8) eight children, and surrounded by an extended family-community environment.
Attended high school in West Virginia and the Lewis Gale School of Nursing in Roanoke, Virginia.
She married Douglas Watson and move to his native state in Colorado.
Her husband Douglas, died in 1998.
She has two grown daughters, Jennifer and Julie and five grandchildren.
Continued her nursing education at University of Colorado.
In 1964, she earned a baccalaureate degree in nursing.
In 1966 a master’s degree.
In 1973, a doctorate in educational psychology and counseling.
She joined the School of Nursing Faculty at the University of Colorado Health Science Center.
In 1981 and 1982, she pursued international sabbatical studies in New Zealand, Australia, India, Thailand, and
Taiwan.
In 2005, she took a sabbatical for a walking pilgrimage in the Spanish El Camino.
In 2005, as a dean, she developed a postbaccalaureate nursing curriculum in human caring, health, and
healing that led to a Nursing Doctorate (ND), a clinical doctorate that became the Doctor of Nursing Practice
(DNP).
Founder and member of the Board of Boulder Country Hospice.
She received research and educational federal grants, numerous university and private grants.
She has received 13 honorary degrees, nine from international Universities.
In 2015, she received an honorary doctorate from Erciyes University in Kayseri, Turkey. On the same year,
she received the Helene Hildebrand Center of Compassionate Care in Medicine Award from Note Dame
University as well as an award from the Academy of Integrative Healing Medicine.
In 1993, she received the National League for Nursing (NLN) Martha E. Rogers Award.
1993 to 1996, she served on the Executive Committee and Governing Board for the NLN, and she served as a
President from 1995 to 1996.
In 1997, NLN awarded her an honorary lifetime holistic nurse certificate.
In 1992, the University of Colorado School of Nursing honored Watson as a distinguished professor.
In 1998, Watson was recognized as a Distinguished Nurse Scholar by New York University.
In 1999, she received the Fetzer Institute’s national Norman Cousins Award in recognition of her commitment
to developing, maintaining, and exemplifying relationship centered care practices.
Jean authored 11 books, shared authorship pf 9 books, and published countless articles in nursing and
interdisciplinary journals.
 Her first book, Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of Caring (1979)
 Second book, Nursing: Human Science and Human Care- A Theory of Nursing (1985)
 Third book, Postmodern Nursing and Beyond (1999)
 Fourth book, Instrument for Assessing and Measuring Caring in Nursing and Health
Sciences (2002)
 Fifth book, Caring Science as Sacred Science (2005).
 Measuring Caring: International Research on Caritas as Healing (Nelson &
Watson,2011)
 Creating a Caring Science Curriculum (Hills & Watson,2012)
 Human Caring Science: A Theory of Nursing (Watson,2012)
 Caring Science, Mindful Practice: Implementing Watson’s Human Caring Theory
(Sitzam & Watson,2013)
 Saint Mary’s University
SCHOOL OF HEALTH and NATURALSCIENCES
Nursing Department
Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya

Nursing Care Management 100

Assignment 2- 1st term

Biography of Patricia Benner

She was born in Hampton, Virginia.

In California, she received her early and professional education.
In 1964, she obtained a baccalaureate of arts degree in nursing from Pasadena College.
In 1970, she earned a master’s degree in nursing, with major emphasis in medical-surgical nursing, from the
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing.
In 1982, her PhD in stress, coping, and health was conferred at the University of California, Berkeley, and her
dissertation was published in 1984 (Benner, 1984b).
She has a range of clinical experience, including acute medical-surgical, critical care, and home health care.
She has a rich background on research and began this part of her career in 1970 as a postgraduate nurse
research in the School of Nursing at UCSF.
Benner became an associate professor in the Department of Physiological Nursing at UCSF and a tenured
professor in 1989, upon completion of her doctorate in 1982.
In 2002, she moved to the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF, as the first occupant of the
Thelma Shobe Cook Endowed Chair in Ethics and Spiritually.
In 2008, she retired from full time teaching as a professor emerita from UCSF but continues with
presentations, consultation, and visiting professorship as well as writing and research projects.
She is currently Chief Development Officer for educatingnursess.com and works with Dr. Pat Hooper-
Kyriakidis in continued development of the textbook replacement learning program, NovEx.
Patricia, was selected for the CHOICE list of Outstanding Academic books in 1995.
In 1985, she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing. She received the National League for
Nursing’s Linda Richards Award for leadership in Education in 1989 and both the National for Nursing (NLN)
Excellence in Leadership Award for Nursing Education and the NLN President’s Award for Creativity and
Innovation in 2010.
In 1993, she received the Alumnus of the Year Award from Point Loma Nazarene College.
In 1995, she received the Helen Nahm Research Lecture Award from the Faculty at UCSF for her contribution
to nursing science and research.
In 2002, she received an award for outstanding contributions to the profession from the National Council of
State Boards of Nursing.
In May 2004, she received the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Pioneering Spirit Award, for her
work on skill acquisition and articulating nursing knowledge in critical care.
In March 2004, Benner was appointed Nursing Education Study Director for the Carnegie Foundation’s
Preparation for the Professions Program (PPP).
In 2011 the American Academy of Nursing honored Patricia Benner as a Living Legend.