Hermeneutics: An Ethical Journey

Hermeneutics is an important philosophical mode of inquiry where discipline-specific theories and methodologies provide important windows of understanding human experiences. The author discusses the embedded truths of ethics found in the formal inquiry where human living quality phenomena are highlighted. The valuable insights and the importance to the future of the discipline of nursing focus on ideas for suggested further study.

Living a Threatening Circumstance from a Nursing Perspective

This introduction reminds nurses to use a nursing perspective in their work with other clinicians and researchers. In this introduction, the humanbecoming perspective is used to help nurses see a group of persons with specific challenges or threatening circumstances as a case study of an important phenomenon, so as to remain as humane as possible in their practice, teaching, and research.

Leading-Following Interpretations: Living Quality and Working, the Musical

It is important to explore the ways that the working lives of persons provides meaning in personal, professional, and organizational ways. In this paper, the author utilized the processes of Parse's (2021a) humanbecoming hermeneutic sciencing (discoursing with penetrating engaging, interpreting with quiescent beholding, and understanding with inspiring envisaging) and the leading-following model to further understanding of the meaning of "working" through Stephen Schwarz's Broadway show, Working, the Musical (Browning & Schwartz, 1982/2002). Although not a formal sciencing project, this interpretive reflection provided a way to "see" how work is "lived out" uniquely.

Faculty Worldviews: The Challenge of Diversity and Silos

While much has been written about diversity and worldviews, too often an openness and respect for diversity of perspectives in teaching-learning seem veiled in calls for sameness in thinking about the world, education, and events. In this column, the author explores the issue of diversity of faculty perspectives in the teaching-learning of nursing. Thoughts are shared from the humanbecoming teaching-learning model, exploring the notion of synergistic patterning in creating a rich tapestry of teaching-learning of nursing.

The Humanbecoming Concept Inventing Model: Feeling Sad

In this paper, the scholar explored the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling sad with the humanbecoming concept inventing model. The now-truth of feeling sad is penetrating discomfort arising with contemplating joy-sorrow of affiliations amid envisioning new possibilities. The theoretical statement as the ingenuous proclamation of feeling sad is imaging the connecting-separating of transforming with the scholar's chosen artform, Melancholy by Albert Gyorgy. The scholar aimed to advance nursing knowledge of the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling sad.

Truth for the Moment and Importance to Nursing

In the article that follows the authors present information focused on nursing care delivery involving Neuman systems theory and improving the stress and stability. The authors then follow up with a clinical scenario which utilizes the Neuman system model as a means to prevent and ameliorate aggression and violence. The structure and evidence guided by Betty Neuman's systems model centers on managing and reducing stresses and working towards reconstitution. The thoughts contained in this article highlight some considerations regarding the importance of truth and truth for the moment for the nursing discipline.

Paradoxes in Humanbecoming Hermeneutic Sciencing

The author explores humanbecoming hermeneutic sciencing and provides exemplars of paradoxes that are used by scholars in this mode of inquiry.

Influences of the Arts and Nurse Ethics

Art has limitless definitions, meanings, and modes for presentation. It is a pivotal cocreation designed to provoke and stir up artists' personal beliefs, values, and thinking. Art is uniquely received by those persons experiencing it in the moment. The author in this article illuminates the significance of the arts with the enduring ethical truths found in nursing paradigms and theoretical frameworks. The humanbecoming ethos is used to illustrate the importance of the arts in human living and its future implications for the advancement of the discipline of nursing.

Living the Art of Nursing

The article that follows reflects on the importance, the precision, and the guidance provided through theoretical foundations, science, and art of nursing as directed by these paradigmatic theoretical frameworks and their corresponding practice methodologies. The mainstay element common across all frameworks is the precise essentials contained within the nursing theoretical frameworks that, in turn, guide the contributions of the nursing discipline. The humanbecoming paradigm serves as the primary highlighted focus of the article.

Policy Crafting: Humanbecoming and the Rainbow PRISM Model

It is important that nurses guide practice with crafted policies based in nursing knowledge that is distinctive and specific to the values and beliefs of all persons, such as humanbecoming. As policy crafters in nursing, a nursing theory or model must serve as the foundation in service to others. In this article, the author explores crafting policy with the Rainbow PRISM model (Cody, 2003; Ortiz, 2018), in light of Parse's (2021a) humanbecoming paradigm, the humanbecoming community change concepts (Parse, 2003, 2021a), and Parse's (1987, 2021a) principles of inquiry construction.

Humanuniverse Emerging

The author presents poetry that expands understanding of the humanuniverse experience at a lake.

Conceptual Foreknowings: Integrative Review on Having Courage

Having courage is a humanuniverse living experience that is common to all humans. Individuals experience courage in one way or another at different times. Hence, it is imperative to understand having courage from various standpoints. To explore the different perspectives on the phenomenon of courage, the scholar dwelled with printed material across the disciplines of theology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, social work, education, business, and nursing. Two themes were crafted from the literature as (a) courage is steadfastness in the midst of fear and (b) unfaltering commitment to the cherished.

Living on the Edge: Paradoxical Experiences With Ethics

Paradox is living phenomenon that provides insights into straight thinking and diverse human experiences important to the discipline of nursing from a nursing philosophical theory-based approach. Here, the author delves into the metaphorical experience of living on the edge and the paradoxical concepts that assist the discipline in its thinking about artificial intelligence. Possible ethical implications of utilizing artificial intelligence from a humanbecoming ethos of understanding are discussed. The metaphorical implications for future disciplinary priorities are presented.

Paradoxical Rhythms in Teaching-Learning: Glimpsing the Utterable-Unutterable

In this column, the utterable-unutterable in teaching-learning is explored. Through the lens of the paradoxical rhythms of the humanbecoming teaching-learning model, insights are gleaned from a story shared of an experience in the teaching-learning of nursing. Further understandings emerge from reflecting on the thoughts of others in the literature. From this consideration, suggestions are offered to guide nurse faculty in honoring the richness of the utterable-unutterable in teaching-learning.

Paradox: A Living Rhythm in Humanbecoming

The author explores Parse's postulate of paradox within the humanbecoming paradigm and connects it to extant works in nursing.

A Parsesciencing Inquiry on Feeling Trusted

The purpose of this study was to investigate the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling trusted using Parsesciencing, which is a unique mode of inquiry within the humanbecoming paradigm. The inquiry stance was: What is the discerning extant moment of the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling trusted? Historians were 10 individuals who were age 18 and older living in the community. The discerning extant moment of feeling trusted, the major discovery of this Parsesciencing inquiry, was: Feeling trusted is serene uplifting recognition with dedicated affiliations arising with assuredness-unassuredness in venturing onward.

Poetry: An Avenue of Artsciencing

As an introduction to the inaugural Artistic Expression Column, the construct of artsciencing is briefly discussed and poetry is presented as an avenue of artsciencing.

Illusions Encountered in Teaching-Learning: A New Perspective

In this column, the author explains that there are illusions in teaching-learning in nurse education; sometimes they do not honor the values of teachers or learners. From a humanbecoming perspective, nurse educators cocreate an educational journey with learners, valuing the indivisible, unpredictable, everchanging humanuniverse in coming-to-know the truth for the moment.

The Magic of Surprise

This article explores the concept of Surprisology and the humanuniverse living experience of surprise. Story is used to enhance understanding of a humanbecoming perspective of surprise.

The Humanbecoming Concept Inventing Model: Having Courage

The scholar birthed a unique idea of the universal humanuniverse living experience of having courage using the humanbecoming concept inventing model. Very few studies have explored the phenomenon of courage. This concept inventing emerged with the now-truth, having courage is intentional risking with commitment to the cherished arising with opportunities-restrictions. With the artform, by Andrea Fidler, the scholar articulated an ingenuous proclamation in the language of the humanbecoming paradigm; having courage is powering the valuing of enabling-limiting. This scholarly conceptualization of having courage will advance the unique nursing body of knowledge and is the prelude to the Parsesciencing inquiry on having courage.

Trust and Worth on the Co-Created Journey of Teaching-Learning

Trust and worth are common words often heard in the media with calls to trust the news, trust elected officials, or trust the science. Yet how can one trust science or news or others when contrary evidence arises? In the teaching-learning of nursing, emerging truths and new knowings challenge what was once considered conventional wisdom, presenting a challenge and an opportunity for nurse faculty. A discussion of trust and worth is presented with insights offered for the teaching-learning of nursing. While the insights are not exhaustive, the intent is to challenge nurse faculty to set aside time and space to delve with colleagues into creation of a culture of trust and worth in the teaching-learning milieu. This seems most appropriate for such a time as this, where a simple thing as listening to the evening news suggests that human dignity, trust, and worth seem little valued.

Persevering: An Ethic of Choice

Perseverance is a living phenomenon that is uniquely important with individuals, groups, and community. Persevering is persistently choosing one direction from another in spite of the urgings of others and the unknown consequences. The action of persevering reflects prized and cherished values reflective of the person's unique identity. It is an ethic of choice to be honored. This article begins an ethical straight-thinking discussion of the ethos of honoring human dignity while bearing witness with others who are persevering with life-altering turbulence with the passing of a life. A humanbecoming ethos of enduring truths will be applied to a family story.

Leading-Following and Living Quality: A Reflection

There are many moments within all collaborative leading-following relationships that form each constituent over time. In collaborative leading-following, it is important that there is a nursing theoretical framework that guides the professional relationship with a knowledge base that is distinctive and shared by all involved. In this paper, the author reflects on the humanbecoming core knowings of living quality in light of the essences of leading-following (Parse, 2021a, 2021b).

Loving Words: A Nurse Theorist and Editor's Story of Precision and Clarity

The words used in dialogue, published work, and even nursing theory reflect and cocreate meaning. In this column, nurse theorist, Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and editor Dr. Rosemarie Rizzo Parse reflects on her love of words and writing and how that influenced her work and penchant for precision and clarity. She shares how the meaning of words changed in her humanbecoming worldview and her thoughts on societies' current use of some words and their methods of dialoguing.

Look Up

This article highlights the findings of the 1998 humanbecoming inquiry considering tomorrow. The participants in this inquiry were women homeless in Chicago. Children's books, recent TV and newspaper articles focusing on the homeless in Pensacola, Florida, and various other humanbecoming inquiries involving homeless populations emphasize the importance of looking up and paying attention to what is occurring in humanuniverse so as to seize opportunities that present themselves with the emerging now.

Nurse Faculty: Moving Away from the Script

In this column, the author shares insights on honoring the wisdom of diverse perspectives by cocreating a teaching-learning journey from a humanbecoming perspective. The author urges nurse educators to move away from the use of scripts in having routine and difficult conversations in nurse education. The film The Sound of Music, a favorite of the author, is used to describe honoring wisdom in diverse perspectives by using dialogue in the art of being with. In this way, nurse educators may cocreate a teaching-learning journey that honors humanuniverse dignity.

The Paradoxical Tensions of Speaking-Being Silent: An Ethical Perspective

Choosing whether or not to speak or be silent is a paradoxical experience that emerges in the moment. For the discipline of nursing, it is an important value priority found in nurse-person, nurse-group, and nurse-community situations. The discipline of nursing is at a crossroad when contemplating what its place and status will be in the chaotic and ever-changing healthcare and higher educational arenas. The author in this article sheds new light on the future direction for what it means to articulate meaning as a nurse and the ethical consequences of choosing to speak-not speak up for the ever-changing priorities and purposes of the healthcare disciplines.

Leading-Following: Living Quality and Spending Time

The purpose of this article is to explore the ways in which living quality shapes the ways nurses and leaders spend their time with ever-changing value priorities.

Sacred Cows in Nurse Education: Are Faculty Scared to Dream?

In this column, the authors share insights on traditions and new perspectives regarding teaching-learning uncovered through their experiences in higher education. Challenging teachers to consider letting go of the sacred cows often embraced in nurse education, the authors explore the humanbecoming teaching-learning model as a means of making curricular decisions in creating programs founded in a solid nursing foundation.

Concept Inventing: Feeling Pulled in Different Directions

People refer to feeling pulled in different directions as laboring with everyday living of life challenges and opportunities. Guided by concept inventing within a humanbecoming worldview, a now-truth of this phenomenon is that feeling pulled in different directions is visualizing surfaces with spirited longing in a riveting uncertitude of diversions. The ingenuous proclamation was expressed in the language of humanbecoming as imaging the powering valuing of languaging originating and illuminated within the artform Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky by Emily Carr. This exploration contributes to nursing knowledge within the humanbecoming paradigm and offers foci for future inquiry.

Power, Policy, and Community Change: Humanbecoming Reflections

Nursing is filled with many innovative leaders who strive to work at the "cutting edge" of possibilities. This edge is tenuous and must be attended to with care through how nurse leaders and policymakers are present with people, situations, and ideas. Nurse leaders and policymakers must be guided by unique nursing theoretical perspectives as they are "present" with others navigating power and change. The purpose of this paper is to explore humanbecoming and the way it contributes to understanding power, health policy, and community change concepts.

Ethics and Emerging Health Policy

Following the tumultuous times of a pandemic, members of the healthcare disciplines, including nursing, face mounting priorities and ethical straight-thinking questions for policy development. The processes for developing ethical policies must acknowledge others' health priorities and what matters to them instead of political agendas that dominate global thinking. An example of doing harm in healthcare is examined here as a priority leadership policy opportunity from a humanbecoming ethos understanding.

Persevering: A Parsesciencing Inquiry

The purpose of this article is to present a Parsesciencing inquiry about the universal humanuniverse living experience of persevering. Six adult historians who engaged in dialogue with the scholar were invited to describe their experiences with the question: "Please tell me, what is your experience of persevering?" The discerning extant moment of the living experience of persevering was as follows: Persevering is resolutely pressing on with the cherished arising with the restricting barriers of diverse affiliations with the transsubstantiating as: Persevering is powering valuing the enabling-limiting of connecting-separating.

Whitewater Waves

The humanbecoming concept of powering is explored in this article with the author describing her experiences with whitewater waves on the Missouri River in South Dakota. The third principle of humanbecoming along with four humanbecoming inquiries on feeling sad, feeling unsure, feeling disrespected, and living hope are also presented in examining the paradoxical processes involved in powering.

Tenure Decisions and Power: The Good and the Evil

The use of power in the seeking and granting of tenure in an academic setting can influence the future of teaching-learning of nursing in significant ways. In this column, notions of power will guide a discussion about tenure. Warnings are offered of potential traps that might stifle academic freedom, thus defeating the purpose of tenure to promote student learning and advance development of new knowledge unhindered by organizational and political forces. With insights from the humanbecoming leading-following model, thoughts are offered to guide faculty and administrators involved in the tenure process to protect academic freedom that is critical to the mission of nurse education programs.

Review of 2007-2020 Humanbecoming Guided Studies and Investigations

The authors in this article provide a review and synthesis of 46 studies and investigations that were published between 2007 to 2020 that were guided by the everchanging humanbecoming paradigm. Moreover, the authors present details and a synthesis of published studies using the Parse research method and humanbecoming hermeneutic method as well as the extant Parsesciencing and humanbecoming hermeneutic sciencing investigations published up to the date of December 31, 2020. The article builds on the previous review conducted by Doucet and Bournes in 2007, which addressed studies conducted from 1985-2006. Newknowings for the enhancement of the everchanging humanbecoming paradigm and the discipline of nursing are provided for scholars to ponder.

Is Death the Enemy? Reconsidering the Significance of Metaphor in End of Life

Metaphors are important ways to language meaning and illustrate imaginative thinking for the healthcare disciplines. Normative ethics focus on metaphors of war, torture, and art that guide thinking in end-of-life decision-making. This article begins a discussion of novel, imaginative thinking for consideration of metaphors such as holding on-letting go as paradoxical ways of being and quality during end of life. The discussion will be viewed through a case study utilizing the philosophical, theoretical lens of humanbecoming.

The Creative Emergents of Wandering and Wondering

In this article, the author explores wandering and wondering through the lens of educational theory, philosophy, psychology, complexity theory, and the humanbecoming paradigm. A fictional story concerning wanderers is presented to highlight the creative power of the imagination involved with wandering and wondering.

Concept Inventing: Feeling Trusted

With the humanbecoming concept inventing model, the scholar conceptualized a novel idea about the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling trusted. The now-truth of feeling trusted is cherished acknowledgment with sureness-unsureness arising with gracious alliances. The ingenuous proclamation of feeling trusted as a theoretical statement is valuing the originating of connecting-separating and as an artform is the film of The King's Speech. The conceptualization of feeing trusted using the humanbecoming concept inventing model contributes to the advancement of nursing knowledge of universal humanuniverse living experiences.

Envy and Originality: Facing the Challenge in Teaching-Learning

Envy is identified as inevitable in human endeavors with potentially deleterious effects on the teaching-learning of nursing. Insights are gained into the human experience of envy through shared stories from literature and nurse faculty. Further insights are gained through the lens of the humanbecoming perspective to offer recommendations for faculty and leaders in the teaching-learning of nursing.

The Mirror of Scholarship

The author in this paper explores the concept of scholarship in the humanbecoming paradigm and connects it to his own reflections after reading The Humanbecoming Paradigm: An Everchanging Horizon.

Metaphor: Meanings and Humanbecoming Metaphorical Truths

The purposes of this paper are to briefly describe the meaning of metaphor from a variety of sources, to show its ubiquitous and creative nature, to share some examples used in common parlance and scholarly works, and to elaborate the meaning of metaphor from a humanbecoming perspective with three metaphorical truths-semantic resonance, coherent integrity, and magical transfiguring. Metaphor is a linguistic way of conveying an idea in poetic language with words and phrases articulated as complete ideas with the use of unusual words that normally have different meanings. Metaphor has been used often in literary narratives and poetry to clarify meaning. Many authors offer ideas about what a metaphor is and how it should be used. Some of those are presented in this article.

The Magic of Metaphor

This is an introduction to nurse theorist Rosemarie Rizzo Parse's manuscript on metaphor.

Feeling Ashamed: A Parsesciencing Inquiry

The universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling ashamed was explored using the Parsesciencing mode of inquiry. The inquiry stance was: What is the discerning extant moment of the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling ashamed? Historians were 10 adults living in a community in upstate New York. The major discovery of this Parsesciencing inquiry was the discerning extant moment: Feeling ashamed is penetrating encumbrance with isolating concealment emerging with diverse affiliations.

Metaphorically Speaking: Living the Art of Nursing and Meaningful Insights

The importance of honoring and attending to human expressions, including metaphor, is more than an exercise in rhetorical flourish. Attending to metaphorical expressions is an inherent whole-in-motion connection of living the art of humanbecoming with the attention to honoring personal values and choices. The humanbecoming paradigm offers a person-centered approach and thus advances the trust of persons within the various communities receiving healthcare.

A Foundation for the Future: Sowing the Seeds of Illimitable Possibilities in the Rock Garden of Nurse Education

In this column, the author shares insights on teaching-learning uncovered in considering the experiences of growing up on a farm, illuminated by insights from a treasured childhood book as perceived through the nursing theoretical lens of humanbecoming. Suggestions for planning and planting for the future of nursing are offered and questions are asked as a guide for the nurse teacher.

Feeling Listened To: A Parsesciencing Inquiry

Feeling listened to as a universal humanuniverse living experience was investigated with the Parsesciencing mode of inquiry. Historians were 10 English-speaking adults between 18 and 65 years old who had been hospitalized, willing to share their experiences of feeling listened to. The inquiry stance was "What is the discerning extant moment of the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling listened to?" The major discovery of this investigation revealed the discerning extant moment as: Feeling listened to is uplifting recognition amid disconcerting rebuff, as treasured affiliations surfaces with joyful gratification.

Robotics in Teaching-Learning: But in Nursing?

In this teaching-learning column, the use of robotic technology is explored as a possible adjunctive assistant to faculty. Given the advances in technology and the imposed restrictions of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, a discussion of using robotic technology in the teaching-learning of nursing seems timely and relevant. Questions to consider are explored. Then a concern and a possibility are presented for incorporating this advancing technology into teaching-learning from a humanbecoming perspective. Faculty are encouraged to enter into a deeper dialogue with colleagues in exploring options for incorporating robots with the caveat that the core of teaching-learning must remain the presence of teacher with student on the co-created never ending journey of the unfolding mystery in coming-to-know.

Reflections on Fortifying Wisdom

The author in this article explores seven day-to-day living experiences that expand understanding of the humanbecoming concept of fortifying wisdom. Poetry is used to enhance understanding of the seven living experiences of (a) the use of words, (b) the experience of the body, (c) love, (d) compassion, (e) faith, (f) hope, and (g) forgiveness.