Substantively this chapter introduces two aspects of the humanistic
nursing practice theory: first, what this theory proposes and, second,
how the proposals of the theory evolved.
Concisely, humanistic nursing practice theory proposes that nurses
consciously and deliberately approach nursing as an existential
experience. Then, they reflect on the experience and phenomenologically
describe the calls they receive, their responses, and what they come to
know from their presence in the nursing situation. It is believed that
compilation and complementary syntheses of these phenomenological
descriptions over time will build and make explicit a science of
nursing.