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Revisiting 'Discipline' in Relation to Caring Science as Sacred Science: Revisiting Discipline of Nursing
1360038Founding Director Watson Caring Science Institute, Distinguished Professor/Dean Emerita University of Colorado Denver, College of Nursing.
Abstract:
The purpose of this manuscript is to invite a revisiting of the concept of the "discipline" of Nursing, with attention to the spiritual consciousness of "Nurse" within the sacred concept of self-caring and caring-healing consciousness. The notion of including the spiritual, evolving consciousness of "Nurse," in harmony with evolution of Professional Nursing, is congruent with a mature disciplinary matrix of caring science as sacred science. This congruence between Nurse/Nursing contributes to the evolution of Nursing, Holistic Practices and Era III unitary transformative disciplinary thinking.
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