Josephine Paterson & Loretta Zderad: Humanistic Nursing Practice

Question 1

• an existential experience
• a lived dialogue that involves the coming together of the nurse and the person to be nursed
• “nurturance” (essential characteristic)

Answer 1

Nursing

Question 2

• cannot take place without the authentic commitment of the nurse to being with and the doing with the client
• presupposes responsible choices

Answer 2

Humanistic nursing

Question 3

Human beings are viewed from an existential framework of becoming through choices. “Man is an individual being necessarily related to other men in time and space.

Answer 3

Person

Question 4

Health is a matter of personal survival, a process of experiencing one’s potential for well-being and more-being, a quality of living and dying

Answer 4

Health

Question 5

Nurturing response of one person to another in a time of need that aims toward the development of well-being and more-being.

Answer 5

Nursing

Question 6

• Refer to as community. Humanistic nursing must take into account all aspects of community: the fact that we live our lives in communities of others, of time, of space, and of experiences.
• It is only through community that we are able to reach our full potential.

Answer 6

Environment