AbstractIn the following article, Lila Ortuno and Dr. Kristine Florczak describe the personal and professional growth gained by a graduate student undertaking a knowledge based personal reflection of practice.Keywordsapplying Kocaba’s theory of comfortnarrative of graduate nursing student transformationpatterns of knowing in nursingGet full access to this articleView all access options for this article.Get accessReferences1. Parse R. R. (2016). Where have all the nursing theories gone? Nursing Science Quarterly, 29, 103.