Quality of Life: Sciencing and Living the Art of Human Becoming
- 1 March 1994
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Nursing Science Quarterly
- Vol. 7 (1), 16-21
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089431849400700108
Abstract
Quality of life, from the person's perspective, is the goal of the human becoming theory. Thus far, research on quality of life has been implemented from a totality paradigm perspective, excluding consideration of the human as a unitary being. The most valuable conclusion to be drawn from all the research is that quality of life cannot be quantified. This article specifies a different meaning of quality of life and points out ways of sciencing and living the art of nursing when quality of life is the goal.Keywords
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