On the other hand, if a nurse denies her own struggling humanness, she
self-righteously will be apt to accuse either self or her other. This
way of being denies, suppresses, and represses one's own and the other's
ability to be, to be as much as potentially possible. Understanding man
through this conception of him is important to the possibility of
augmenting the implementation of humanistic nursing practice theory.
Authenticity With The Self: For Actualization of Nursing's Potential
Husserl, the father of phenomenology, suggested the study of our lived
worlds, our experience, a return to the study of "the thing itself."
Looking at the lived worlds of nurses one is confronted with conflicts
and multiple {57} values. In their nursing worlds nurses often risk
themselves in their commitment to good for their patients. They come to
know aspects of their own and others' unique natures. These are often
different from and frequently in conflict with generally accepted
cultural values and/or institutional policies and rules. If
confidentiality is an issue, does this dictate a suppression of nurses'
complete knowing? Or does this call for a recognition of as complete a
knowing as possible followed by responsible selection and revelation of
that knowing which will advance knowledge and understanding of man?
Understanding of man can change a person's way of being with other man
and his way of existing in and responding to his world. I suggest the
latter, as complete knowing as possible followed by responsible
selection and revelation, with occasional risk taking to deepen the
level of accepted cultural knowledge of man. Always, the nurse would
protect an individual other man. This dispersion of knowledge, then,
requires not only responsible being in the nursing situation but also
mulling, pondering, assessing, and judging prior to disclosure.
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