Realizing the Focus of the Discipline: Facilitating Humanization in PhD Education: A Student Exemplar Integrating Nature and Health

• Published in: Advances in nursing science Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 69 - 80
• Main Authors: Tehan, Tara M, Cornine, Amanda E, Amoah, Rita K, Aung, Thin Zar, Willis, Danny G, Grace, Pamela J, Roy, Callista, Averka, Kathleen A, Perry, Donna J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Copyright Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved 01-01-2019; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
• Subjects: Academic degrees; Adult; Curriculum; Education, Nursing, Graduate - organization & administration; Female; Humanism; Humans; Male; Nurse-Patient Relations; Nurses; Nursing; Nursing Care - psychology; Nursing education; Nursing Theory; Philosophy, Nursing; Quality of life; Researchers; Students; Students, Nursing - psychology; Young Adult
• ISSN: 0161-9268; 1550-5014
• DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000246

Doctorally prepared nurses must be able to represent the unique nursing perspective within interdisciplinary teams to address contemporary health challenges. This article provides a student exemplar applying the unifying focus of facilitating humanization as described by Willis, Grace, and Roy to science on nature and health. As scientific knowledge becomes more complex, nurses must be skilled in translating information through the nursing lens to support individuals in realizing meaning, choice, quality of life, and healing in living and dying. In order for doctoral students to shepherd the discipline, they must first integrate nursingʼs philosophical underpinnings into their practice.