Processes

Encountering phase

Co-creating Caring Relationship phase

Meaningful Engaging phase

Description of Process

Who are these persons, and what are the persons?

Designing nursing practice simultaneously through aesthetic processes*

Interactive relating between caring persons: Where all nursing occurs

Attributes of Process

-Knowing self and others as caring person encompassing aesthetics, personal, empirics, ethics, technological knowing

-Embodying (body-mind-spirit) wholeness of person

-Synchronous interaction between nurse-client by mutual knowing, interpreting, understanding/appreciating

within aesthetic environment

-Valuing as co-creating caring

-Mutual participation in caring between nurse-client relationships

-Expressing caring through aesthetic processes within

aesthetic environments

Consequences of Process

-Aesthetic relationship

-Knowing the whole persons (hopes, dreams, aspirations)

-Meanings in the experiences of nurse and clients

-Persons’ health and well-being are enhanced

-Personhood is enhanced

-Satisfaction to care and nursing profession