For a nurse to become a free responsible research nurse in the health
arena she accepts her lived nursing world as beyond the controls valued
in positivistic science. She appreciates her lived nursing world as
saturated with knowledge to be extracted or wrung. Then she must
examine, recognize, appreciate, and unfold her history, her angular
view, and her human nurse potential. In prizing her view, as nurse, she
will ask relevant nursing questions. To attain her potential as nurse
she will discipline herself rigorously for authenticity with the self.
With the self-acceptance that comes with self-authenticity she will know
the importance of the difference she and the nursing profession make and
can make in the community of man. Then out of her own human social need
and for the survival of nursing she will describe to propel knowledge,
nursing theory, and practice forward. In this process and in its effects
she will become more human as she contributes to man's humanization.