Place is a kind of lived space. It is personalized space. One says, for example, "Come to my place" meaning to my home. Or even more personally, it relates to where I feel I belong or am, for instance, "he put me in my place; I felt put down." The patient may feel "out of place" in the health care setting, while it may be commonplace to the nurse. There may be areas in the setting that the patient experiences as his territory, for example, his bed, his room, his ward; while other areas are "theirs" or "restricted to authorized personnel." So a nurse and a patient may be in a place together, yet one feels at home and the other does not. For the nurse to be really _with_ the patient involves her knowing him in _his_ lived space, in his here and now. Lived space is interrelated with lived time. Patients hospitalized for a long time often express a proprietary attitude toward the hospital. The same holds true for personnel. With time and familiarity a feeling of reciprocal belongingness grows. The person belongs in the place and the place belongs to the person. On the other hand, when a person finds himself in a new place he may feel the discomfort of not belonging. This is as true for the nurse in an unfamiliar setting as for the patient. Again in this regard, the lived nursing dialogue is enhanced by the nurse's awareness of not only her own experience of space but the patient's as well. CONCLUSION This chapter explored the basic view of humanistic nursing as a phenomenon in which human persons meet in a nurturing, intersubjective transaction. Beginning with the central intuition that nursing is lived dialogue, the examination turned to its existential source, the nursing situation as it is lived. Reflection on actual experience clarified the phenomena of meeting, relating, presence, and call and response as they occur in humanistic nursing. Dialogical nursing was then reconsidered in broader perspective as it actually evolves in the real world of men and things in time and space. As scientific advances multiply in the health field, nursing is swept along in the tide. Continuous technological changes, ever increasing specialization, emphasis in nursing education and research on scientific methodology all have marked influence on the development of nursing. Science (with a capital S) colors the nursing world. At every turn it permeates the nurse's being with and {36} doing with the patient. It offers a certain security by providing a consistent and effective approach to some problems and questions, and, in some cases, results in general laws to guide practice. At the same time, in the lived nursing world the nurse experiences a reality that is not open to the scientific approach, a reality not always verifiable through sense perception, a reality of individuality. The uniqueness of individuality (her own as well as the patient's) pervades the nursing dialogue.