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The Rhythm of Relating in a Paradigm of Wholeness
Author(s) -
Newman Margaret A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1999.tb00485.x
Subject(s) - rhythm , psychology , cognitive science , philosophy , aesthetics
The importance of relating to the rhythm of another person's interactive pattern is integral to helping people move through illness and disruptive events. At times of chaos, a person's rhythm may be irregular and difficult to sense, but transformation to higher levels of organization often occurs at far‐from‐equilibrium states. Nurses should develop a tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty and “ang in there” with clients until a new rhythm emerges.