Feeling Peaceful: A Universal Living Experience.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the living experience of feeling peaceful. Parse's research method was used to answer the question: What is the structure of the living experience of feeling peaceful? Twelve participants living in a community consented to partake in the study. The central finding of the study is the structure: feeling peaceful is contentedness amid tribulation, as unburdening surfaces with devout involvements. The findings are discussed in relation to the humanbecoming school of thought and extant literature.

Living the art of humanbecoming with the Smith family.

The author presents the humanbecoming family model with family living with dementia. A brief overview of the humanbecoming paradigm is presented followed by a discussion about the humanbecoming family model, true presence, and living the art of humanbecoming. A description of the Smith family living with dementia illustrates living the art of humanbecoming.

Conceptualizations of health in nursing practice.

There are many ways of living health as individuals describe it from unique perspectives. With the intent of serving others, healthcare professionals rely on a specific conceptualization of health consistent with a practice methodology. Hence, for the advancement of innovative scientific knowledge health can be viewed from distinct paradigmatic perspectives and must be founded on a congruent ontological-epistemological-methodological link in professional practice. The purpose of this column is to describe conceptualizations of health with congruent practice methodologies from three distinct nursing paradigmatic perspectives. The authors consider that these distinct paradigmatic nursing perspectives offer diverse disciplinary knowledge of social utility to nursing professional practice for the betterment of the ones being served.

Feeling at home: a humanbecoming living experience.

In this article, the author reports a Parse research study on the experience of feeling at home with 10 participants living in community. The central finding of the study is the structure: Feeling at home is quietude amid potential adversity, as uplifting certitude arises with the penetrable reverence of cherished affiliations. The findings are discussed in relation to the humanbecoming school of thought and extant literature.

A humanbecoming program of research: having faith.

The author of this column describes the evolution of program of research underpinned by the humanbecoming school of thought.

Feeling strong: a parse research method study.

In this article the author reports findings from a Parse research study on the experience of feeling strong with 10 participants living in community. The central finding of the study is the structure: Feeling strong is propelling resolutely amid adversity, as jubilant fulfilling assuredness surfaces with discerning spirited envisioning with treasured alliances. The findings are discussed in relation to the humanbecoming school of thought and extant literature.

The humanbecoming leading-following model in practice.

The purpose of this column is to illustrate how the humanbecoming leading-following model was lived by nurses practicing within hospital, community, and school settings. The authors describe practice scenarios to show ways that nurses guided by the humanbecoming theory lived the processes and the key ideas of the model. One example addresses a change of policy, as the nurse lived the humanbecoming beliefs and values in leading-following. This column is nursing theory-guided evidence-based practice.

Trusting another: a parse research method study.

This article reports a Parse research study on the experience of trusting another with 10 participants living in community. The central finding of this study is the structure: The lived experience of trusting another is cherishing alliances arising with uplifting lightness in pressing on resolutely with potential adversity. The findings are discussed in relation to the humanbecoming school of thought and related literature.

The meaning of suffering in families: a humanbecoming perspective.

The authors of this article present the findings of a study about the experience of suffering for 2 families from South Korea with relatives living with chronic mental illness, using the humanbecoming nursing perspective. The central findings of this qualitative descriptive-exploratory study showed that suffering in families with relatives living with mental chronic illness is agonizing trepidation amid calm invigoration, as confident relinquishing of the expected arises with liberating diverse affiliations. The findings are discussed in relation to the themes of the humanbecoming school of thought and related literature. Phenomena of study for further research are suggested.

Having faith: a Parse research method study.

In this article the author reports details of a Parse research study on the lived experience of having faith with 10 participants living in community. The central finding of this study is the structure: The lived experience of having faith is discerning conviction with perpetual alliances arising with fortitude amid adversity . The findings are discussed in relation to the human becoming school of thought and related literature.

Review of research related to Parse's Theory of Human Becoming.

Ninety-three retrievable studies guided by the human becoming theory between 1985 and 2006, are reviewed. A summary of the studies is tabulated according to the two basic human becoming research methods, the human becoming applied research method, and other qualitative research methods using human becoming as the frame of reference. The authors provide an overview of the studies and the human becoming research methods and further illuminate the findings of studies reviewed under four major themes that describe the phenomena studied.