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Transactional relationship whose
meaningfulness demands conceptualization
founded on a nurses existential awareness of
self and the other.
Humanistic nursing aims at the development
of human potential , at wellbeing and more
being
Nursings concern is said to be not merely with
a persons wellbeing but within his morebeing;
with helping him become more as humanly
possible in his particular life situation.
Wellbeing and Morebeing, that health is
conceptualized as somewhat more than the
freedom from disease.
View person as actually living in two worlds.
o An angular, inner world, also described as a
biased or shaded reality.
o The objective world , of persons and things.
Openness to and acceptance of the others
inner world is essential for true interaction
between persons.
The existential literature, descriptions of what
man has come to know and understand in his
experience, has evolved from the use of the
phenomenological approach.
In phenomenology a statements validity is
based on whether or not it describes the
phenomenon accurately.
Succession within the nurse from the many to the
paradoxical one
Nurse complementarily synthesizing known others
Nurse knowing the other scientifically
Nurse knowing the other intuitively
Preparation of the nurse knower for coming to
know
PHASES OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION
1.Preparation of the nurse
knower for coming to know
Understanding own viewpoint/angle helps to make sense
and aid in acquiring meaning of experience
Angular view involves the gestalt of the human.
She struggles with understanding and identifying her own
angular view
Being open to new and different ideas/understandings is a
necessary position in being able to get to know the other
intuitively
2.Nurse knowing the other
intuitively
3.Nurse knowing the other
scientifically
4.Nurse complementarily synthesizing
known others
5.Succession within the nurse from
the many to the paradoxical one