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Nursing Science Quarterly,12:2, Ap il 1999The Lived Experience of Se-renity The Lived Experience of Serenity: Using Parse’s Research Method
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| Author | Kruse, Barbara G. |
| Abstract | Parse’s research method was used to investigate the meaning of serenity for survivors of a life-threatening illness or traumatic event. Ten survivors of cancer told their stories of the meaning of serenity as they had lived it in their lives. Descriptions were aided by photographs chosen by each participant to represent the meaning of serenity for them. The structure of serenity was generated through the extraction-synthesis process. Four main concepts—steering-yielding with the flow, savoring remembered visions of engaging surroundings, abiding with aloneness-togetherness, and attesting to a loving presence—emerged and led to a theoretical structure of serenity from the hu-man becoming perspective. Findings confirm serenity as a multidimensional process. The purpose of this study, guided by Parse’s (1981, 1992, 1995) theory and research method, was to investigate the meaning of serenity for survivors of a life-threatening event. The focus of this research was not on disease but rather on the universal health experience—se-renity. Although recent nursing studies make reference to serenity, only in the current decade has serenity been ex-plored as a central phenomenon (Mes- |
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