title: Pattern recognition as a nursing intervention with Japanese women with ovarian cancer.
abstract: This article explores the process of pattern recognition, contained within Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness, as a nursing intervention with adults with ovarian cancer. The process of the nurse-client interactive pattern revealed four nonlinear phases: the client-nurse mutual concern, pattern recognition, vision and action potential, and transformation. Most participants found meaning in their lives and experienced personal growth in expanding consciousness.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Kitasato University, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Endo
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D016387:Women's Health