Includes bibliographical references and index.

Phoenix arising : synoptic knowing for a synoptic practice of nursing / Marguerite J. Purnell -- Transcending boundaries : nursing, a synoptic discipline? / Savina O. Schoenhofer -- "With the very best of intentions" : the development of nursing process as a way of knowing / Lynne M. Dunphy -- Inspired knowing in nursing : walking on moonbeams / Pamela G. Reed -- Consciousness and knowing : the patterning of the whole / W. Richard Cowling III and Elizabeth Repede -- Evidence, knowledge, and wisdom : nursing practice in a universe of complexity and mystery / Gail J. Mitchell -- Knowing persons as whole : bearing witness to unfolding mystery / William K. Cody -- Holistic knowing / Marlaine C. Smith -- Unknowing : towards the understanding of multiple realities and manifold perceptions / Patricia L. Munhall -- Knowing patients' bodies : nurses' bodywork / Zane Robinson Wolf -- Journeying with Linda : a narrative approach to practice and research / Christopher Johns -- Caring for "not-so-picture-perfect patients" : ethical caring in the moral community of nursing / Marian C. Turkel and Marilyn A. Ray --

Decision making and knowing in nursing : the essentiality of meaning / Susan K. Chase -- An exquisite knowing of children / Bernie Carter, Marie Marshall, and Caroline Sanders -- Knowing persons with disabilities : nurses illuminate difference in a natural light / Donna Carol Maheady -- Clinical knowing in advanced practice nursing / Ruth McCaffrey -- Vision, technology, and the environment of care / Alan Barnard -- "Painting a clear picture" : technological knowing as a contemporary process of nursing / Rozzano C. Locsin -- Knowing the person and technology as medium / Marilyn Macdonald -- Rapture and suffering with technology in nursing / Rozzano C. Locsin and Marguerite J. Purnell -- Coming to know community : going to the mountain / Charlotte D. Barry and Shirley C. Gordon -- Knowing the patient and being a good nurse / Samantha M.C. Pang, Michiko Yahiro, and Helen Y.L Chan -- Continuous knowing of patients : the Japanese nursing perspective / Yukie Takemura and Katsuya Kanda -- Influence of culture on knowing persons / Carolina Huerta and M. Sandra Sanchez -- Moving forward in a contemporary practice of nursing / Marguerite J. Purnell and Rozzano C. Locsin.