Cultivating Awe: A Means to Inspire Sciencing

Abstract

Awe is an emotion involving a feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends one’s current understanding of the world and is associated with creating a sense of wonder and curiosity. The author explores how awe experiences can have a role in igniting and sustaining research endeavors, and how nurse researchers can cultivate everyday awe experiences as sources of inspiration when engaged in the art of nurse sciencing.

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awe emotions research sciencing unitary caring science

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