Jean Watson
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Jean Watson was born in a small, close-knit town in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia in the 1940s. Watson graduated from the Lewis Gale School of Nursing in Roanoke, West Virginia, in 1961. She continued her nursing studies at the University of Colorado, earning a B.S. in 1964, an M.S. in psychiatric and mental health nursing in 1966, and a Ph.D. in educational psychology and counseling in 1973. Watson is well known for her Theory of Human/Transpersonal Caring.
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