The Art of the Human Becoming Theory
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse, RN; PhD; FAAN
Goal of the Discipline of Nursing |
Contextual Situations |
Nurse-Person* Process |
Methodology |
Documentation |
| Quality of life as described by the person.* | Nurse-person*
participation in person’s home, healthcare centers, conference rooms, on
walks, or on rides.
All contexts in which structured and unstructured discussions arise in general or through: storytelling, gardening, listening to poetry, listening to music, viewing films, patterned moving, and imagining. |
True
presence emerges in the nurse-person process as a special way of being
with in which the nurse is attentive to moment-to-moment changes in
meaning as s/he bears witness to the person’s own living of value
priorities. Witnessing is beholding, an attending to with unconditional presence. It is a dwelling with incarnating availability. Witnessing is a non-intrusive gentle glimpsing in reaching beyond to honor the other as human dignity. The gentle glimpsing is a non-judgmental gaze embracing the other as a unique cocreation. Embracing is an unadorned intending acknowledging the significance of the other’s choices; it is a standing with during a journey. Witnessing is living true presence. Coming-To-Be-Present requires: preparation and attention |
Illuminating meaning is explicating what was, is, and will be. Explicating
is making clear what is appearing now through languaging. Synchronizing rhythms is dwelling with the pitch, yaw, and roll of the human-universe process. Dwelling with is immersing with the flow of connecting-separating. Mobilizing transcendence is moving beyond the meaning moment with what is not-yet. Moving beyond is propelling with envisioned possibles of transforming. |
Personal
Health Description The meaning of the situation, patterns of relating with close others, and the hopes and wishes articulated by the person.* Person’s* Intents and Priorities Intents related to patterns of becoming are written specifically from the perspective of the person (including what the person desires from healthcare providers, and how it is being addressed). Description of Nurse-Person* Process The person's descriptions of the experience in the nurse-person process are recorded. Recording may be done by the nurse or the person. |
*In this document, the term person refers to person/family/community.
Adapted from: Parse, R. R. (1998). The human becoming school of thought. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.