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A concept analysis about temporality and its applicability in nursing care
Célia Pereira Caldas1, Carina Berterö
1Nursing Faculty, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Topic:
Concept analysis of temporality.
Purpose:
To develop a comprehensive definition of temporality applicable to nursing care.
Source:
Published literature.
Conclusions:
Temporality is a central component of our experience of the world. Phenomena such as the passage of time, time cycles, the trajectory of aging, transitions toward something, something being, and life as a limited time are integral to human experience. Temporality could be seen as lived time, and as such it is subjective time as opposed to clock time or objective time. The temporal dimensions of past, present, and future constitute the perspective of a person's temporal world.
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