~metanursing.~ A discipline designed to deal critically with nursing, ontological study of nursing; study of the phenomenon of nursing; a critical study of nursing within its human context.
~metatheoretical.~ Transcending theory; ontological inquiry from which theory may be derived.
~nursology.~ Study of the phenomenon of nursing aimed toward the development of nursing theory.
~phenomenology.~ The descriptive study of phenomena.
~phenomenon.~ An observable fact, event, occurrence or circumstance; an appearance or immediate object of awareness in experience. A phenomenon may be objective (that is, external to the person aware of it) or subjective (for example, a thought or feeling).
~prereflective experience.~ Primary awareness or perception of reality not yet thought about; spontaneous experience; immediate experience or perception.
~presence.~ A mode of being available or open in a situation with the wholeness of one's unique individual being; a gift of the self which can only be given freely, invoked, or evoked.
~transactional.~ An aware knowing of one's effect in a situation of which one is a part; an action that goes both ways between persons. {123}
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
In addition to the extensive discussions that have been generated since the initial publication of Paterson and Zderad's Humanistic Nursing, the work has been formally cited and or discussed in the nursing literature. This selected bibliography was compiled by Helen Streubert, MSN, RN doctoral candidate and research assistant in the Department of Nursing Education, Teachers College/Columbia University, New York.