title: Intentionality and caring-healing consciousness: a practice of transpersonal nursing.
abstract: This article explicates some theoretical and scientific dimensions of intentionality and consciousness as a framework for transpersonal nursing. New connections are made between noetic sciences and transpersonal caring theory, both of which cultivate intentionality as a form of focused consciousness as a formal field of study. What emerges is Intentional Transpersonal Caring, whereby intentionality, consciousness, and universal energy-field are posited as the foundation of a caring moment, potentiating healing for both practitioner and patient. The theoretical and scientific are translated into the practical by a series of practice guidelines that activate intentionality into a living theory of transpersonal caring-healing praxis.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA.
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Watson
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011364:Professional Practice