These considerations of the dialogical character of nursing will be more
fruitful if they are related to some concrete nursing experience.
Reflect for a moment on your daily nursing practice. Recall an
encounter, a specific interaction with a patient (client). Try to
remember the details. Where were you? What time of day was it? Who was
present? What was your state of being--what were you feeling, thinking,
doing? How did the interaction begin? What happened between you? What
was felt, said, done? What was left unsaid, undone? How did the
interaction end or close? How long did the flavor last? Now keep this
concrete instance of your lived nursing reality in mind and let it raise
its questions in the following exploration.