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The Humanbecoming Concept Inventing Model: Feeling Comfortable
1Clinical Associate Professor, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA.
Nursing Science Quarterly
|March 20, 2025
Summary
Feeling comfortable is contentment in the moment, arising from opportunities and limitations in creating anew. This nursing concept, the now-truth, is illustrated by art, expanding knowledge in human experience.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Science
- Human Experience Studies
Background:
- The concept of "feeling comfortable" is explored within the humanbecoming paradigm.
- Existing understanding of comfort lacks a nuanced conceptualization of its dynamic nature.
Purpose of the Study:
- To conceptualize the universal human experience of "feeling comfortable" using the humanbecoming concept-inventing model.
- To explicate "feeling comfortable" as a "now-truth" within nursing scholarship.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis based on the humanbecoming paradigm.
- Utilizing the artform "A Comfortable Corner" by Charles Courtney Curran (1887) as an illustration.
Main Results:
- "Feeling comfortable" is defined as "contentment in the moment arising with opportunities-limitations in creating anew."
- "Feeling comfortable" is further explicated as "imaging the enabling-limiting of originating."
Conclusions:
- The conceptualization of "feeling comfortable" expands nursing knowledge.
- The "now-truth" of comfort offers a novel perspective on human experience within nursing.
- Art serves as a valid medium to illustrate complex human experiences in nursing research.
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