Through dialogue, students and faculty openly engage in the study of
nursing. The dialogue encourages and supports students and faculty to
freely express who they are as person and nurse living caring through
the re-presented story. It provides an opportunity to affirm values
of self and discipline and to study how these values may be lived in
practice. It is in this dialogue of nursing that faculty communicate
their love for nursing. Time is needed for both faculty and students
to reflect on the meaning of being a member of this discipline and more
specifically, on the meaning of being a member of a discipline
focused on nurturing persons as they live and grow in caring. Dialogue
facilitates the integration of this understanding and is a key concept
in present and future transformations of nursing education. Common
engagement in dialogue as nursing stories are shared and studied is the
way of being.
The story lived anew provides students the opportunity to participate
in a lived experience of nursing and to create new possibilities. Since
nursing can only occur through intentionality and authentic presence
with the nursed, students and faculty share how they prepare to enter
the world of the nursed, and how they come to understand that world.
This process requires that students be encouraged to live fully their
personhood. To facilitate such living, faculty support an environment in
which students are free to choose and to express self in various ways.
For example, perhaps the holistic understanding of a nursing situation
would be expressed as aesthetic knowing through dance, poetry, music,
painting, or the like. We view this process of education as critical to
moral education. When students enter nursing situations to know other as
living and growing in caring, they are living out the moral obligation
that arises from the commitment to know person as caring. Here, then,
is an expression of a dynamic view of morality in which caring is always
lived in the moment.
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