title: 'Unknowing': toward another pattern of knowing in nursing.
abstract: Knowing is wonderful, but it is just a guiding means. Unknowing is a condition of openness. This unknowing in the intersubjective space of two people or people of two cultures allows others to be. This art of unknowing may enable a nurse to understand, with empathy, the actual essence of the meaning an experience has for a patient. This pattern of unknowing focused herein on the intersubjective whole between patient and nurse is applicable as well to learning in a more formal sense. To be open to learning one needs to posture oneself in a position of unknowing to hear a colleague, a teacher, a student. To provide and find openness is to be able to say, "I never thought about it that way," and at once experience the wonderment of coming upon an "unknown."
authors.affiliation: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Munhall
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011287:Prejudice; D012718:Set, Psychology; D013240:Stereotyping