Feeling Pulled in Different Directions: A Parsesciencing Inquiry.

The Parsesciencing mode of inquiry was used to advance understanding of a universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling pulled in different directions. Ten people engaged in dialogue to address the question, "What is your experience of feeling pulled in different directions?" The discerning extant moment of this inquiry was that

Concept Inventing: Feeling Pulled in Different Directions.

People refer to feeling pulled in different directions as laboring with everyday living of life challenges and opportunities. Guided by concept inventing within a humanbecoming worldview, a now-truth of this phenomenon is that . The ingenuous proclamation was expressed in the language of humanbecoming as and illuminated within the artform by Emily Carr.

More Than Words? Embracing a Practice-Care Distinction for Nursing Practice Education.

In this paper, authors draw on distinctions between nursing practice and nursing care to inform abstraction and assignment of pre-licensure practice experience hours. Authors discuss an imperative to develop understandings of practice education and practice experience hours that reflect nursing as a basic human science, with implications for the enrichment of student scholarship and flourishing.

Evaluating an Initiative to Promote Entry-Level Competence in Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Registered Nurses in Canada.

Numerous competency statements have been developed for the purpose of guiding nurse educators and clinicians. Rarely, though, are there evaluations of the use of these competency statements in practice. In this cross-sectional descriptive study, nurse educators were surveyed to determine how the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) Palliative and End-of-Life Care Entry-to-Practice Competencies and Indicators are used in schools of nursing in Canada.

Nursing: whose discipline is it anyway?

Nursing is variously described as a profession, a discipline, an occupation. The meanings we assign to such words and the expectations, demands, and responsibilities that each reveals to and/or exacts from those of us privileged to call ourselves registered nurse provides a splendid arena for viewing the struggle of nursing as an intellectual endeavor embedded in its own distinctive knowledge base, experiences, purposes, and values. Currently, pressure exerted within and without nursing to adopt the self-limiting potential and subordinated position that a professional discipline orientation and applied degree education confer on nursing is mounting.