title: Exploring being: an international dialogue.
abstract: Nurses and other health professionals are in a privileged position in that they are called to be with people and their families at some of the most important moments in persons' lives. In order to better prepare nurses for this awesome and challenging responsibility, a session of the 11th International Human Becoming Conference held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, on November 6, 2004, reflected on famous quotations on Being and related Being to nursing practice. The human becoming school of thought is unique in its willingness to face the important but difficult question, what is Being?
authors.affiliation: Hunter College of the City University of New York, 82 Sherman Avenue, Williston Park, New York, NY 11596, USA. sbaumann@hunter.cuny.edu
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Baumann
mesh_terms: D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D010684:Philosophy; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing