Humanistic Nursing, page 129 by Josephine Paterson
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es of Schizophrenic Verbal and Non-Verbal Acts Related to Selected Kinds of Music," Humanities and the Arts, p. 49.
[7] Carol Ann Christoffers, "Movigenic Nursing: An Expanded Dimension," Humanities and the Arts, p. 95.
[8] Garner, p. 40.
[9] Picasso as quoted in My Name Is Asher Lev.
[10] John Hersey, The Conspiracy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), p. 82.
[11] Faye G. Abdellah, "The Nature of Nursing Science," Nursing Research, Vol. XVIII (September-October, 1969), p. 393.
[12] "Art," The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World I, Vol. 2, 1952, pp. 64-65.
[13] Ellen T. Fahy, "Nursing Process as a Performing Art," Humanities and the Arts, p. 124.
[14] Martin Buber, I and Thou, 2nd ed., trans. Ronald Gregor Smith (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958), p. 9.
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A HEURISTIC CULMINATION
This chapter presents an application of the humanistic nursing practice theory over time and an outcome. The outcome represents my present conscious conceptualization of my personal theory of nursing. It has grown out of my nursing practice experience, my reflecting, relating, describing, and synthesizing. This is heuristic culmination of much mulling over my lived world of nursing.
ANGULAR VIEW: PRESENT PERSPECTIVE
In 1971 after a presentation on concept development I heard myself in a chatty response to the audience declare my unique theory of nursing. It was based in constructs that I had developed and conceptualized. Previously I had viewed these constructs only as distinct entities. My synthesis of them surprised me. This was the first time I conveyed them as my why, how, and what of nursing. This synthesis may have emerged as a sequence to my reexamination and reflection on each of these constructs in preparation for this 1971 presentation.[1] Now it became evident that their sequential evolvement had a logic th