title: The unfolding: scenario planning in nursing.
abstract: An interdisciplinary consortium organized a group to explore the meaning and the future of nursing in South Dakota using scenario planning. This column provides a general description of the four scenarios that emerged, some observations about how they might evolve, comments on their implications, and first-person stories, as told by fictitious residents. The process of scenario planning is connected to nursing science by explicating how five lessons of scenario planning are linked with Parse's human becoming concepts of creative imagining, glimpsing the paradoxical, and affirming personal becoming.
authors.affiliation: Sioux Valley Hospital & University of South Dakota Medical Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
authors.forename: Diana Vander
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Woude
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Damgaard
authors.forename: Margaret J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Hegge
authors.forename: Deb
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Soholt
authors.forename: Sandra Schmidt
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Bunkers
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009729:Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000458:organization & administration; D010934:Planning Techniques; D012586:Science; D013023:South Dakota; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D000078329:Workforce