title: [The invention of the concept of continuing on in during difficult times].
abstract: The concept inventing process has been useful in the emergence of a new concept, continuing on during difficult time, with its definition including three unique essences and its relation to the Human becoming ontology. Concept inventing is a process of concept development that was introduced by R.R. Parse at the end of 1990's. It aims at synthesizing the researcher's preliminary understanding of a concept. The result is a conceptual definition that expands knowledge and guides research in the study of lived experiences. The conceptual definition of continuing on during difficult time is: persevering amid what is suffering with the engagements-disengagements as a new way of moving on is emerging with the hoping of the possibles. In transposing this definition in a theoretical structure, it evolves in: powering valuing in the connecting-separating of generating imaging. Implications for nursing research and practice are stated.
authors.affiliation: Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Québec, Canada J8X 3X7.
authors.forename: Francine A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Major
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses; D009732:Nursing Care; D015399:Nursing Research; D009742:Nursing Theory; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012649:Self Concept