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.

Philosophical Theories of Truth and Nursing: Exploring the Tensions.

In this paper, the authors explore three philosophical theories of truth and offer a critique of this foundational area of scholarship for nursing. A brief summary of key ideas related to the three substantial philosophical theories of truth-that is, correspondence, pragmatism, and coherence-serves to highlight various convictions and commitments that facilitate or discourage the growth of nursing knowledge in particular ways. The authors conclude that the coherence theory of truth offers a more inclusive view of truth and best captures and supports the diversity that exists within nursing knowledge and the regulative ideal to which nursing aspires.

Specialty and advanced practice nursing: discerning the differences.

Advanced practice nursing and specialty practice are terms that are often used interchangeably in nursing discourse. This column explores the inextricable link, as well as the differences between these two types of practice. Drawing differing conclusions about their specific and cooperative value enables nurses to construct innovative and creative approaches to their continued development that illuminates a path for disciplinary expansion.

Toward an appreciation of nursing scholarship: recognizing our traditions, contributions, and presence.

The notion of scholarship as a process and product of inquiry has received abundant attention since Boyer, in association with The Carnegie Foundation, challenged the narrowly defined and restricted merit system of academe. This article examines the scope and definitions of scholarship advanced by Boyer and his colleagues with a view to surfacing the limitations that this framework places on academic disciplines that also serve professional mandates. Also presented is a framework for contemporary nursing scholarship that moves beyond Boyer's construction and captures the immensely rich and varied contributions that nursing does and can make to humankind.