This article compares three human becoming studies on feeling very tired. The studies were conducted by Dr. Rosemarie Rizzo Parse, Dr. Mary H. Huch and Dr. Debra A. Bournes, and Dr. Steven Baumann. The comparison is conducted through the lens of the following questions: What have we learned about feeling very tired from these studies? What are similarities in the three studies? What are differences in the three studies? And, what new questions can be posed concerning feeling very tired? Unique knowledge for nursing is explicated on feeling very tired as a universal lived experience of health.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Baumann, S. (1995). Two views of children's art: Psychoanalysis and Parse's human becoming theory. Nursing Science Quarterly, 8, 65-70.
2.
Baumann, S. (2003). The lived experience of feeling very tired: A study with adolescent girls. Nursing Science Quarterly, 16, 326-333.
3.
Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Larson, R. (1984). Being adolescent: Conflict and growth in the teenage years. New York: Basic Books.
4.
Huch, M. H., & Bournes, D. A. (2003). Community dwellers' perspectives on the experience of feeling very tired. Nursing Science Quarterly, 16, 334-339.
5.
Mitchell, G. J. (1993). Living paradox in Parse's theory. Nursing Science Quarterly, 6, 44-51.
6.
Parse, R. R. (1981). Man-living-health: A theory of nursing. New York: Wiley.
7.
Parse, R. R. (1998). The human becoming school of thought: A perspective for nurses and other health professionals. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
8.
Parse, R. R. (2001). Qualitative inquiry: The path of sciencing. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
9.
Parse, R. R. (2003). The lived experience of feeling very tired: A study using the Parse research method. Nursing Science Quarterly, 16, 319-325.
