Abstract
Encounters are celebrated experiences between persons with connectedness in human situations as expectation. While being in a human dynamic and rhythmic interaction, nursing encounters are dyadic relationships illuminated as patterns of an interconnected relationship moving between the nurse and the nursed, and reflecting person-and-otherness events. The purpose of this paper is to describe the theory of Encountering Nursing in a Nurse-Nursed Dyadic Relationship (ThENNDyR) and to illuminate the four nursing practice processes on which the theory is founded: Knowing as appreciating relational moments; Reflecting as engaging moments; Realizing as patterns of living moments; and Transcending as celebrating moments. Nursing practice occurs in moments in which dyadic relationships transpire as nursing encounters. As fleeting as moments are, the four processes of nursing simultaneously take place as understanding conditions that the who and what of the person warrants persons. “Encountering nursing” is a momentary co-existence of persons in a person-and-otherness situation communicating connectedness-interconnectedness in distinct patterning. Interactions in nursing exist as persons remain wholes and complete in the moment.
Highlights
Every day nurses encounter different individuals with varied health-related conditions, all with different backgrounds, different concerns, and different stories
The purpose of this paper is to describe the theory of Encountering Nursing in a Nurse-Nursed Dyadic Relationship (ThENNDyR) and to illuminate the four nursing practice processes on which the theory is founded: Knowing as appreciating relational moments; Reflecting as engaging moments; Realizing as patterns of living moments; and Transcending as celebrating moments
Whereas Evaluation in the traditional nursing process looks into the effectiveness or the outcome of the plan of care done to patients, Transcending as celebrating moments looks into the wholeness and the well-being of the nursed after the meaningful nursing encounter, of how a dyadic relationship between the nurse and the nursed is thoroughly affirmed
Summary
Every day nurses encounter different individuals with varied health-related conditions, all with different backgrounds, different concerns, and different stories. Every nursing encounter between the nurse and the nursed is a unique experience that happens from moment to moment, an experience that should be lived and relived to fully grasp the essence of nursing practice. A nursing encounter as a dyadic relationship is relating—to know persons more fully as persons. A dyadic relationship—comprised of two entities namely the nurse and the person being nursed—is a relational approach in which human beings are regarded as inherently relational; an approach in which human beings become fully engaged in practice through relationships with others, and in which persons have the capacity to establish meaningful relations with others [1]. The concept of nursing encounters values the uniqueness of each person in a direct, mutual and open relation between persons and the fullness and presence of humanity that is honored and embraced [2]. While the nursed desires to be understood and known, the nurse is ever-present as expected in the encounter [5]
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