title: Enhancing esthetic knowledge: a teaching strategy.
abstract: This article describes a teaching strategy that has been used with graduate students to enhance their esthetic knowing through representing, interpreting, and envisioning the lived experience of a caring presence in nursing practice. As students engaged in reflecting, writing, and discussion, the explicit and tacit meanings associated with a caring presence unfolded in esthetic knowing in nursing.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, West Virginia University, Morgantown.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D003405:Creativity; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D004645:Empathy; D004954:Esthetics; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards