QUALITY-OF-LIFE - SCIENCING AND LIVING THE ART OF HUMAN BECOMING

Quality of life, from the person's perspective, is the goal of the hum an becoming theory. Thus far, research on quality of life has been imp lemented from a totality paradigm perspective, excluding consideration of the human as a unitary being. The most valuable conclusion to be d rawn from all the research is that quality of life cannot be quantifie d. This article specifies a different meaning of quality of life and p oints out ways of sciencing and living the art of nursing when quality of life is the goal.