VISIONS in ANS 49:2

Each issue of ANS includes an article for the Society of Rogerian Scholars journal – Visions. The current issue of ANS includes an article by eminent Rogerian Scholar John Phillips. Dr. Phillips has been featured on Nursology.net as a “Guardian of the Discipline.” His Phillips’ original, creative writings spanning the years 1990 – 2023 – were published in the book titled Evolving Rogerian Nursing Science: John R. Phillips’ Unique Contributions.

The current articla in ANS is titled “Perspectives of Living-Dying” explains an understanding of Rogers’ view of living-dying as a developmental process

Abstract

This article presents a Rogerian perspective on living-dying through a dialogic narrative situated in a health care facility. Drawing on Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings, the work illustrates living-dying as a developmental, pandimensional process rather than a linear cause-and-effect event. Through evolving conversations among patients, nurses, and clinicians, the narrative reveals how awareness, patterning, and integrality shape experiences of dying, care, and wellbecoming. The integration of the arts and humanities—music, poetry, and dialog—offers nurses creative modalities to deepen understanding of living-dying and to support compassionate, unitary nursing practice in clinical and educational settings.