EXPERIENCING THE WHOLE

This personal essay describes the author's theoretical and methodologi cal journey in her quest for understanding of wholeness as a basic con cept of the discipline of nursing. She asserts that wholeness, seen as pattern and meaning of the life process, is not amenable to external measurement and control, but is learned from within by a hermeneutic d ialectic process with clients. The emphasis on the evolution of undivi ded wholeness is: consistent with a unitary-transformative paradigm of the discipline.