Coupling the interactional with the psychological is cogent for Watson’s theory of
human caring when considering that she envisioned nursing and communication andcaring in nursing as occurring at many different levels including the existentialphenomenological-spiritual
state of being. Therefore, Watson blended the two worldviews
of Symbolic Interaction and Psychological in her efforts to propose a theoretical
approach that would enlighten the communication processes occurring in a nurse-patient
relationship.