The nurse-person relationship is sometimes regarded as the essence of professional nursing practice. Many biomedical nursing definitions and connotations have emerged over time for what it means to ...practice professional nursing with boundaries in a therapeutic nurse-person relationship. In this column the author compares, contrasts, and offers a unique disciplinary perspective with regard to these terms. Ethical implications for developing professional relationships through the nursing disciplinary lens of the human becoming school of thought are explored.
In order to elucidate some of the ways in which critique and subjectivity become inextricably linked in Foucault’s oeuvre, the paper proceeds first by briefly discussing the concept of critique as ...limit-attitude as it appears in some of Foucault’s methodological writings. Subsequently, the main tenets of Judith Butler’s commentary on the essay ‘What is Critique?’ will be summarized, concentrating on the image of the virtuous, self-making subject that the author’s interpretation brings out of Foucault’s original text. The second part of the paper aims to develop an alternative reading of Foucault’s notion of critique by looking at the ways in which the notion of space operates as an underlying perspective in his archaeological analysis. Ultimately, it will be shown how the spatial implications of Foucault’s early works and a more passive form of subjectivity as unfolding from his discussion of the ‘author function’ and his own methodological reflections coalesce into a form of practical critique, which, as wished by the author, may take ‘the form of a possible transgression’ (Foucault
1984a
, p. 45).
The authors describe a study that evaluated implementation of a professional development model in which nurses spend 80% of their salaried time in direct patient care and 20% of their salaried time ...on professional development. The professional development time includes focused learning about patient-centered practice guided by the human becoming nursing theory. A qualitative descriptive preproject-process-postproject method and a longitudinal, repeated measures, descriptive-comparative method were used to answer the research questions. Participants were 33 nurses, 11 other nurse leaders and health professionals, and 55 patients and family members. The findings show that on the study unit overtime hours decreased significantly, the education hours were sustained throughout the study period, workload hours per patient day increased significantly, sick time stayed low, patient satisfaction scores increased, staff satisfaction scores were significantly higher than for comparator groups, and turnover was non-existent among study participants in year 2. Average variable direct labor cost increased over time, but the increase was not significantly higher than on the control units. Themes from the interviews with participants are presented. Ongoing evaluation of the model and implications for future research are discussed.
This article is the report of the human becoming hermeneutic method study on “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (the short story, the screenplay, and the film). The study unfolded during the ...Parse-King dialogue that answered the research question what is hope as humanly lived? Emergent meanings were discovered that enhanced knowledge and understanding of hope in general and expanded the human becoming school of thought.
Critical review of R. R. Parse’s
The Human Becoming School of Thought. A Perspective for Nurses and Other Health Professionals
This paper attempts a critical review of Parse’s recent book The Human ...Becoming School of Thought. A Perspective for Nurses and Other Health Professionals. The claimed philosophical foundations of the approach are described, as are key assumptions and principles of the human becoming school of thought. Following this, four areas of criticism are identified. These focus on: the key concepts of health and quality of life; Parse’s appeal to human ‘universals’; and the problem of shrouding descriptions of lived experience within the terminology of the human becoming school of thought.
This article updates Parse's theory of human becoming (formerly man-living-health) and the congruent practice and research methodologies. The language of the assumptions and principles is revised to ...be in keeping with the change in name, from "man-living-health" to "human becoming." No other aspects of the theory are changed. Assumptions underpinning the Parse research method are specified for the first time. Specific examples are included to illustrate the practice methodology and references named to demonstrate the research methodologies. The practice and research methodologies are presently evolving, and it is anticipated that the evolution and use of these methodologies will enhance the theory. The ontology and the congruent methodologies are offered as a contribution to the evolution of nursing science.
Being a Sibling Baumann, Steven L.; Dyches, Tina Taylor; Braddick, Marybeth
Nursing science quarterly,
01/2005, Letnik:
18, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The purpose of this descriptive exploratory study was to explore the meaning of being a sibling using Parse’s human becoming perspective. Twelve children between 5 and 15 years of age with a younger ...sibling with a cleft lip and palate or Down Syndrome participated. Through semi-structured interviews and the use of art, children talked about their experiences. Major themes portrayed the complex and paradoxical nature of being a sibling. The themes also revealed that having a sibling with special circumstances includes some unique opportunities and challenges. The finding of this study is the descriptive statement, being a sibling is an arduous charge to champion close others amid restricting-enhancing commitments while new endeavors give rise to new possibilities. Implications for nursing are discussed in the context of understanding being a sibling.
The purposes of this research were to discover the structure of the experience of having courage and to contribute to knowledge about human becoming. Participants were 10 persons with spinal cord ...injuries. The Parse research method was used to answer the research question, What is the structure of the lived experience of having courage? The central finding of this study is the following structure: The lived experience of having courage is a fortifying tenacity arising with triumph amid the burdensome, while guarded confidence emerges with the treasured. The findings are discussed in relation to human becoming, relevant literature, and future research.
