title: Nursing as the promotion of well-being: the client's experience.
abstract: An essential question of the discipline of nursing is: What do nurses do to promote the client's well-being? Using a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach to inquiry, this study explored the client's experience of nursing as the promotion of well-being, explicating in three distinct metathemes the meaning of well-being as transforming and nursing as caring. Based on this critical view of nursing, prospective directions for education, research and practice are suggested.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton 33434-0991, USA.
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Appleton
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000523:psychology*; D009742:Nursing Theory