Intuitive Experience Research Articles

Intuition in nursing practice: deep connections.

The purpose of this study was to describe the phenomenon of intuition in nursing culture. The aims of the study were to (a) identify and describe terminology used with intuition in nursing care practice, (b) describe examples of experiential knowledge of intuition, (c) describe actions taken on intuitive experiences, (d) describe feelings associated with intuitive experience, and (e) compare and contrast patterns and processes of nursing intuition. The design of the study was ethnography. Sampling involved 40 nurses from all levels of the hospital and home health care practice. Intuition was found to (a) facilitate the depth of nurse-client relationships; (b) lead to a deeper understanding and connection with client patterns; (c) be acknowledged as a professional risk; (d) emphasize the significant influence of autonomy, independence, and assertiveness in nursing practice; and (e) contribute to excellence in nursing care. Intuition was identified as a manifestation of transpersonal caring in the art of nursing practice and was deeply connected to caring as the moral ideal of the nursing profession.

Innovative Imagery

The purpose of this study was to describe the phenomenon of intuition in nursing culture. The aims of the study were to (a) identify and describe terminology used with intuition in nursing care practice, (b) describe examples of experiential knowledge of intuition, (c) describe actions taken on intuitive experiences, (d) describe feelings associated with intuitive experience, and (e) compare and contrast patterns and processes of nursing intuition. The design of the study was ethnography. Sampling involved 40 nurses from all levels of the hospital and home health care practice. Intuition was found to (a) facilitate the depth of nurse-client relationships; (b) lead to a deeper understanding and connection with client patterns; (c) be acknowledged as a professional risk; (d) emphasize the significant influence of autonomy, independence, and assertiveness in nursing practice; and (e) contribute to excellence in nursing care. Intuition was identified as a manifestation of transpersonal caring in the art of nursing practice and was deeply connected to caring as the moral ideal of the nursing profession.

Time in the Philosophy of Bergson

The central point of Bergson's philosophy is the intuitive experience of duration, which is situated on the antipodes of the traditional idea of time. This conception of time, according to Bergson, puts time on the same level as space, as a measurable entity, as the succession of instants to measure what come before and what comes afterwards. However, this conception is a complete fallacy resulting from the illegitimate projection of the characteristics of space in the dimension of time. Real time is not so much a form of exact access to the world of objects, but rather the true substance of life itself; it is qualitative, creative duration, a vital impulse which is grasped intuitively as the essential memory beyond the images and the material which form the present moment of perception and which are in reality the spacial solidification of duration in its flow

Intuition in decision-making.

The purpose of this research was to explore intuitive experiences of nurses in critical care and home care settings. Fifty‐six nurses were interviewed and transcriptions of interviews were analyzed for emergent themes. Nurses described their experiences in terms of feeling and knowledge and gave examples of types of intuition. Further analysis showed themes consistent with three attributes of intuition found in the nursing literature. Recognition of intuitive experiences has consequences for communication and decision making in clinical practice.

Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction.

Taking the position that style has a value in its own right, that language forms a major component of the story a nonfiction writer has to tell, Anderson analyzes the work of America s foremost practitioners of New JournalismTom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Joan Didion.Anderson does for nonfiction what insightful critics have long been doing for fiction and poetry. His approach is rhetorical, and his message is that the rhetoric of Wolfe, Capote, Mailer, and Didion is a direct response to the problem of trying to convey to a general audience the sublime, inexplicable, or private and intuitive experiences that conventional rhetoric cannot evoke.The emphasis in this book is on style, not genre, and the analysis characterizes the distinctive styles of four American writers, showing how the richness and complexity of their prose discloses an important argument about the value of language itself. Their prose is complex, nuanced, layered, affecting, always aware of itself as style. This self-consciousness, Anderson contends, prepares the reader to regard style as argument, a tacit but powerful statement about the value of form as form, style as style.

The experience of intuition

The experience of intuition

Integrated Manufacturing Modeling System

The objective of the Integrated Manufacturing Modeling System (IMMS) project was to build a generic software package for manufacturing modeling. The package allows interactive model building, testing, and experimentation. IMMS integrates the fundamental components of modeling, namely system description, data acquisition and management, graphic input and output, and performance simulation. The fundamental idea is to describe the flow of information, materials, and resources by using parametric standard model building blocks. Inputting is done by placing function symbols on a graphic screen and by filling in blanks for parameter data. The output includes all common performance measures, such as utilization and work in process (WIP), in graphic form. The simulation language used to implement the model building blocks is RESQ2. The Integrated Manufacturing Modeling System combines the advantage of simulation modeling with the advantages of end user programming capability. Simulation results allow intelligent decision making based on analysis (instead of intuitive experience), and an end user package reduces the turnaround time for modeling and eliminates the need for specialized programming skill. All this translates into faster and better-quality manufacturing system design and operation.

The science behind rotational bush fallow agriculture system (jhum)

Rotational bush fallow agriculture variously termed as shifting agriculture, slash and burn agriculture are commonly known in India asjhum is a traditional agricultural system of the humid tropics and is extensively practised by the tribes of the north-eastern hill region. There is a renewed interest in this agricultural system as it has so much to offer in terms of concepts and ideas to modern agricultural organization. The science behind jhum is based on intuitive experience of the farmer based on long tradition. This paper looks at the science behind jhum with particular emphasis on the ecological and economic significance of mixed cropping, recycling of resources within the system and between jhum and animal husbandry, the non-weed concept weed potential under different cycles of jhum, and nutrient cycling. The distortions brought about by the shortening of the jhum cycle to 4–5 yr is considered. Alternate strategies for development with jhum as the focal point, with suitable modifications but without the present-day distortions, have been considered.

The treatment of refractory schizophrenia: pharmacotherapy and clinical implications of blood level measurement of neuroleptics.

The treatment of refractory schizophrenia requires careful definition. This is usually a statement based on clinical and/or intuitive experience. The definition can be extended and tightened if laboratory evidence is incorporated into this definition. Suggestions on how to accomplish this, e.g. measuring blood levels of antipsychotic agents, are made. Strategies for "trials of therapy' in nonresponsive patients and for decisions for changing to a new antipsychotic agent are presented. Clinical and laboratory difficulties in tackling this problem are also discussed.

Whitehead's Intuitions

At the beginning of Process and Reality, as he engages in a preliminary discussion of the Category of the Ultimate, Whitehead makes a crucial statement: “The sole appeal is to intuition.” (P.R. 32). In like fashion he says in Adventures of Ideas: “All knowledge is derived from, and verified by, direct intuitive observation.” (A.I. 228) He makes laudatory reference to the “complete concreteness” of intuitive experience and the absence of “analytic divorce from the total environment.” (S.M.W. 94, 279)

THE ROMANTIC DICHOTOMY

The critics show none of their usual caution in defining the romanticism of Romantic poets. On the contrary, we are liable to be overwhelmed by the consensus about the links that bind together poets as seemingly disparate as Blake, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. ‘The internal made external’ says M. H. Abrams (The Mirror and the Lamp, 1953) following not so far behind A. W. Schlegel’s definition of 1801 (Vorlesungen uber schone Literatur). It was, said Logan Pearsall Smith, a new conception of the artist as genius, above the law and given to strange fits of passion (Words and Idioms, 1921). By the time Edmund Wilson came to write Axel’s Castle in 1931 the definition had become generally accepted: ‘Romanticism, as everyone has heard, was a revolt of the individual.’ But definitions have continued to pour in, monotonous in their congruity: The romantic principle asserts that form is an organic event, proceeding from the intuitive experience of the artist (Herbert Read, The True Voice of Feeling, 1953) For the Romantics … belief in the imagination was part of the contemporary belief in the individual self (Maurice Bowra, The Romantic Imagination, 1950) The whole nature of ‘romanticism’ itself was determined by a stress on the individuality, the uniqueness, of an individual poet himself. (W. W. Robson, Critical Essays, 1967)

The Dynamics of Conflict and Cooperation between Nations. A Computer Simulation and Some Results

International relations and especially problems concerning conflict and cooperation between nation-states are one of the most complicated subjects in the study of social systems. This is what Carl J. Friedrich had in mind when he argued that, in politics, one general rule may be 'to expect the unexpected.'1 Jay Forrester has very aptly characterized these properties of complex social systems as 'counter intuitive'2. Their behavior often leads to unexpected and sometimes unintended results. A social system and especially the international system is an open system on principle. The behavior of open systems depends more or less on unpredictable influences from their respective environments. As we are not able to model the universe in order to predict and study all possible processes existing now and in the future, it may very well be a good advice to expect the unexpected'. But if we do not want to surrender political decision to mere intuitive experience, it is not enough to be aware and sensitive of unexpected events. We also need a set of means and methods which enables us to react in a proper way to unplanned disturbances, and thus to assure a satisfactory performance of the system. This implies that we have to know how a system will behave without influences from outside, and how the system will alter its dynamics in the event of environmental disturbances and regulative inputs. The main characteristic of a social system is its complexity. Numerous parts interact in a rather sophisticated way. The interrelationships are mostly non-linear and include time lags and other delays. But our mental processes, on the other hand, have been conditioned and sharpened almost exclusively by experiences with simple systems of everyday life containing, in the language of cybernetics, a negative first-order feedback structure, that is to say, simple goal attainment and adaptation. Complex systems, being multiple-loop and non-linear, exhibit dynamics far beyond the reach of our mental capabilities. To mention but a few of their characteristics we might include: complex systems are remarkably insensitive to changes in many system parameters, they often resist policy changes, they counteract and compensate for externally applied corrective efforts, they react differently in the long run than they do in the short run. We cannot hope to understand the very complicated structure of complex social systems through intuition alone. More powerful methods have to be applied. Statistical procedures now at hand may allow us to study the relationship between a few independent and dependent variables. But they are totally ineffective for the analysis of the over-all behavior of complex systems, partly because the feedback-structure of these systems does not contain wholly independent variables, partly because conventional statistics are inadequate for tracing nonlinear relationships. The mathematical models of social systems, in so far as they try to deduce analytic solutions, have to be rather simple. They cannot model the complexity of real systems, and the analytic solutions based on unrealistic assumptions are of little practical value. The attitude is pri-

Operational Creativity: A Strategy for Teacher Change*

The Journal of Creative BehaviorVolume 2, Issue 4 p. 263-270 Operational Creativity: A Strategy for Teacher Change* GEORGE I. BROWN, Corresponding Author GEORGE I. BROWN Associate Professor Graduate School of EducationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106Search for more papers by this author GEORGE I. BROWN, Corresponding Author GEORGE I. BROWN Associate Professor Graduate School of EducationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106Search for more papers by this author First published: Fall 1968 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2162-6057.1968.tb00115.xCitations: 2 † The author is also Director of an Esalen-Ford project for exploring ways to integrate emotional, sensory and intuitive experience with the conventional intellectual dimensions of learning. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Citing Literature Volume2, Issue4Fall 1968Pages 263-270 RelatedInformation

A Survey and Comparison of Portfolio Selection Models

This article will concern itself with the various techniques for selecting portfolios of securities. It should be made clear at the outset that a good portfolio is not just an amalgamation of a number of “good” stocks and bonds. Rather, it is an integrated whole, each security complementing the others. Thus, the investment manager must consider both the characteristics of the individual securities and the relationships between those securities. Until recently there was no comprehensive theoretical framework for the analysis of the latter aspect of the portfolio problem. Intuitive judgment and experience were the guidelines used by investment managers.

Religion and Instinct

In this article the attempt is made to give a more definite explanation of the subliminal factors which become active in such experiences as religious conversions. He suggests that conscience may be classed with instincts, as the intuitive experience of the demand for social unity. This instinct is the directing force in spiritual integration. Like all instincts, it points toward an objective world with which we are in relation.