Envisioning Human Dignity to Enhance Practice while Journeying with Rwandan Women

Abstract

California Baptist University School of Nursing opened in September 2006 as the first baccalaureate nursing education program in Riverside, California. Under the direction of Dr. Constance Milton, the curriculum was cocreated using Parse's humanbecoming school of thought as a framework. In August 2008, nursing students traveled to Rwanda where they bore witness to the transformation after the 1994 genocide. Dimensions and processes of Parse's practice methodology—illuminating meaning by explicating what is with languaging, synchronizing rhythms while dwelling with ups and downs in the struggle of connecting-separating, and mobilizing transcendence as moving beyond with the not-yet while transforming— emerged in the students' journaling as lived all-at-once amid reverence that honored the dignity and worth of the Rwandan people.

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genocide humanbecoming nursing students Parse Rwanda

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