Nursing science quarterly
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Nursing science quarterly · Jan 2012
The lived experience of doing the right thing: a parse method study.
The purposes of this research were to discover the structure of the experience of doing the right thing and to contribute to nursing knowledge. The Parse research method was used in this study to answer the research question: What is the structure of the lived experience of doing the right thing? Participants were 10 individuals living in the community. The central finding of this study was the following structure: The lived experience of doing the right thing is steadfast uprightness amid adversity, as honorableness with significant affiliations emerges with contentment. New knowledge extended the theory of humanbecoming and enhanced understanding of the experience of doing the right thing.
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Nursing science quarterly · Jan 2012
New humanbecoming conceptualizations and the humanbecoming community model: expansions with sciencing and living the art.
The purposes of this article are to: introduce a new humanbecoming ontological conceptualization, the becoming visible-invisible becoming of the emerging now; describe the epistemological shift from universal lived experience to universal living experience; and further explicate the humanbecoming community model. The community change concepts (moving-initiating, anchoring-shifting, and pondering-shaping) are clarified with explanations in light of the findings of a nine-country translinguistic Parse research method study on hope and insights from living the art of humanbecoming.