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Sandra Schmidt Bunkers

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PubMed2006

Reflections on the prairie as a creative teaching-learning place.

In this column, the author reflects on characteristics of the prairie land of South Dakota and how it contributes to a creative teaching-learning place. Attributes of the prairie that are linked with creative teaching-learning include prairie as a space of aloneness and solitude, prairie as a boundless seeing what may be, prairie as contradiction and paradox, and prairie as possibility. These attributes of the prairie are explored through the author's personal experience, theoretical literature on creativity and teaching-learning, and literature from Parse's theory of human becoming.

Awareness↗
PubMed2006

What stories and fables can teach us.

This column describes the influence of narrative on individuals and societies. More importantly, it describes the importance of story in dealing with health and quality of life issues. The idea of story as an epistemology is discussed. Individual stories which were created in seminars on writing for publication are presented along with stories and fables that lend further understanding to lived experiences of health. Ideas for teaching-learning in nursing regarding the issues in the stories are presented. Parse's human becoming theory is used to further explicate understanding of these ideas.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2005

A community of scholars: what is it?

This column addresses the question, What is a community of scholars? This question is explored through the writings of authors about genius--looking at such geniuses as Plato, Mahatma Ghandi, Queen Elizabeth I, and Christopher Columbus. The question is also explored through the writings of present day nurse scholars and their meanings of community of scholars.

Humans↗
PubMed2004

The lived experience of feeling cared for: a human becoming perspective.

The purpose of this study was to answer the research question, What is the structure of the lived experience of feeling cared for? The participants were 10 women volunteers who were struggling with lack of economic, social, or interpersonal resources and who were or had been homeless. The Parse research method, a phenomenological-hermeneutic method, was used to discover the meaning of feeling cared for. The major finding of this study is the structure: Feeling cared for is contentment with intimate affiliations arising with salutary endeavors, while honoring uniqueness amid adversity. The structure provides knowledge about feeling cared for and its connection to health and quality of life. Feeling cared for is discussed in relation to the principles and concepts of human becoming and in relation to how it can inform nursing practice and future research.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2004

The classroom for a learning community.

This column focuses on Eighth Street Bridge, a street newsletter printed in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The evolution of the newsletter is depicted along with a discussion of the essence of a learning community. Teaching-learning endeavors associated with the newsletter are explicated and activities of this collaborative community effort are presented in light of Parse's community change concepts.

Community Health Centers↗
PubMed2003

The unfolding: scenario planning in nursing.

An interdisciplinary consortium organized a group to explore the meaning and the future of nursing in South Dakota using scenario planning. This column provides a general description of the four scenarios that emerged, some observations about how they might evolve, comments on their implications, and first-person stories, as told by fictitious residents. The process of scenario planning is connected to nursing science by explicating how five lessons of scenario planning are linked with Parse's human becoming concepts of creative imagining, glimpsing the paradoxical, and affirming personal becoming.

Forecasting↗
PubMed2003

Facing fear.

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Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2003

Engaging the abyss: a mis-take of opportunity?

There are occasions when persons find themselves faced with a difficult choice to be with one or more persons as they live intense experiences that often involve pain and suffering. It is proposed in this column that the experience of choosing to be with others during these times calls forth a risking of self. That fleeting moment when people choose to engage with others or to turn away from that opportunity is explored through personal experience and as portrayed in poetry and film. The authors use the metaphor of an abyss to explore the lived experience of risking being with the truth of human connectedness. It is suggested that nurses know the abyss and that they have opportunities to be with persons as they live truth in human becoming.

Humans↗
PubMed2003

Comparison of three Parse method studies on feeling very tired.

This article compares three human becoming studies on feeling very tired. The studies were conducted by Dr. Rosemarie Rizzo Parse, Dr. Mary H. Huch and Dr. Debra A. Bournes, and Dr. Steven Baumann. The comparison is conducted through the lens of the following questions: What have we learned about feeling very tired from these studies? What are similarities in the three studies? What are differences in the three studies? And, what new questions can be posed concerning feeling very tired? Unique knowledge for nursing is explicated on feeling very tired as a universal lived experience of health.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2003

Understanding the stranger.

This column presents teaching-learning processes involved in gaining an understanding of the stranger or the other--the one we see as so different from ourselves. A paradox concerning the stranger or the other exists in this 21st century. Never has the world been more dangerous, with terrorism continuing to spark suspicions of those that are different from us. And, never, at the same time, has the world been more in need of finding ways to embrace those that are different and those that are viewed as the stranger to the larger society. The concept of hospitality and the concept of true presence are explored, in light of human differences, as possibilities for engaging the stranger.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2002

Nursing science as human science: the new world and human becoming.

The human science perspective of the theory of human becoming holds intrinsic characteristics conducive to permeating teaching-learning in the 21st century. This column focuses on the challenges involved in the teaching-learning of nursing science as a human science, particularly from a human becoming perspective. Moving from a medical model of studying disease processes as the foundation for nursing education, to a nursing model of understanding the meaning of unitary lived experiences, poses challenges for both faculty and students in today's nursing world. These challenges include: explicating the unitary nature of humankind, living the responsibility of expressing new thought, perceiving teaching-learning as engaging community; and visioning nursing leadership as a transformative presence in change.

Community Health Nursing↗
PubMed2002

Lifelong learning: a human becoming perspective.

Michael Gelb, in a book titled How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci, identifies Leonardo Da Vinci as one of the most fascinating geniuses of all time. From an extensive study of Leonardo Da Vinci's life and works, Gelb has discerned seven Da Vincian principles depicting Leonardo's disciplined approach to seeking knowledge and inventing anew. In this column, Parse's theory of human becoming is linked with these seven Da Vincian principles providing a nursing theory perspective on lifelong learning. Both the human becoming theory and the Da Vincian principles focus on human possibility and the living of hopes and dreams. Linking the Da Vincian principles with human becoming provides new insights for engaging in a professional and personal postmodern Renaissance.

Attitude↗