Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Steven L Baumann.
The author discusses the importance and some of the challenges of conducting qualitative family nursing research in a way that honors the meaning potential of the family. Examples of studies of low income families, families with children with special circumstances, and families with members with cancer are discussed. The use of the arts and humanities to explore the meaning potential of families is also discussed.
The purpose of this descriptive exploratory study was to explore the meaning of being a sibling using Parse's human becoming perspective. Twelve children between 5 and 15 years of age with a younger sibling with a cleft lip and palate or Down Syndrome participated. Through semi-structured interviews and the use of art, children talked about their experiences. Major themes portrayed the complex and paradoxical nature of being a sibling. The themes also revealed that having a sibling with special circumstances includes some unique opportunities and challenges. The finding of this study is the descriptive statement, being a sibling is an arduous charge to champion close others amid restricting-enhancing commitments while new endeavors give rise to new possibilities. Implications for nursing are discussed in the context of understanding being a sibling.
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Nurses in the field of addictions and substance abuse have assumed, along with most of medicine, that alcohol abuse is a multifactoral health problem. The narratives of two college student's comments about their experiences of excessive drinking are considered from the human becoming theory as an alternative perspective to the causal theories which are dominant in the addictions and substance abuse fields. These issues are also considered from a human becoming perspective.
Nurses and other health professionals are in a privileged position in that they are called to be with people and their families at some of the most important moments in persons' lives. In order to better prepare nurses for this awesome and challenging responsibility, a session of the 11th International Human Becoming Conference held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, on November 6, 2004, reflected on famous quotations on Being and related Being to nursing practice. The human becoming school of thought is unique in its willingness to face the important but difficult question, what is Being?
The challenges and opportunities for nurses who work with people from diverse backgrounds are considered. The task for a nurse from the dominant culture working with persons from minority cultures requires patience, sensitivity, humility, and imagination, but it can be well worth the effort for all involved.
The aging of the world's population is a global issue of considerable importance to everyone, particularly nursing. Traditional developmental theories and the medical model have either neglected later life or highlighted the losses and deficits associated with advanced age, while more recent research on aging and the human becoming theory has provided a more balanced view. In this column, information from health and social sciences, the human becoming school of thought, and international political debates about aging are interwoven. Some attention is also given to the issues of the retirement and aging of the nurses.
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From a human becoming perspective, hope is considered to be a universal lived experience, which arises and fades in the human-universe process. This article is a comparison of six Parse research method studies on the lived experience of hope from five countries: Japan, Taiwan, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. The goal was to explore the similarities and differences in the findings of a nine-country study on hope. While the structure of the experience of hope was similar, some differences are discussed that enhance nursing practice and guide further study.
This article compares three views of spirituality with specific consideration for persons who live with cancer. These views represent theological, psychological, and nursing perspectives. Three dimensions of theologically inspired spirituality are discussed: institutional religious approaches, intellectual questioning, and mystical experiences. The authors review numerous psychological perspectives on the topic of spirituality, particularly from the analytic, humanistic, and existential schools of thought. A human becoming nursing theory perspective is also offered. The authors, who were friends, one a nurse and the other a person with cancer, suggest that nurses, who are able to offer true presence from a place of hope and fulfilled-emptiness, bear witness to persons in a way that can help them transfigure the experience of living with cancer.
This Parse method phenomenological-hermeneutic study centered on the phenomenon of feeling very tired. It was part of a multisite study on feeling very tired using the human becoming theory and the Parse research method. The purpose of the study was to explore the meaning of feeling very tired as described by a group of high school girls. The finding, which is the structure of the lived experience of feeling very tired, surfaced from the dialogues: Feeling very tired is struggling with being attentively present as calming contentment emerges amid discomforting discordance. The conclusion of the study is that feeling very tired is a complex paradoxical rhythm.
Human science-based research, as defined by Dilthey and later developed by Gadamer, provides a valuable way to uncover what human beings have shared without denying important differences. It assumes that people are self-interpreting beings who seek meaning and purpose in the concrete situations of their lives. Gadamer's hermeneutic method is offered as an approach to do international and cross-cultural studies of relevance to nursing and healthcare. Three examples of human science-based nursing studies, which provide global understanding, are discussed.