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CRITICAL THINKING ACTIVITIES
1. Consider the pandimensional aspect of self- how might you have facilitated self-transcendence
transcendence, and list examples of when you and a more positive outcome?
experienced expanded boundaries in your own 3. What nursing intervention could you do to facili-
life. Identify how this expanded awareness influ- tate self-transcendence in a woman with acquired
enced your health or sense of well-being in each immunodeficiency syndrome who is dying? Why
example. would you select this nursing action?
2. What are some factors in the life of patients you 4. How might you apply the Self-Transcendence
cared for recently that negatively or positively in- Theory to help a frail 95-year-old person living in a
fluenced their self-transcendence? If negative, nursing home maintain or gain a sense of well-being?

POINTS FOR FURTHER STUDY
n Reed, P. G. (2008). Reed Self-Transcendence Theory. n Reed, P. G. & Shearer, N. B. C. (2011). Nursing
Nurse Theorists: Portraits of Excellence Vol. II. knowledge and theory innovation: Advancing the
Athens, (OH): Fitne Productions. science of nursing practice. New York: Springer.
n Reed, P. G. (2010). Self-transcendence theory and n Reed, P. G. (2013). The theory of self-transcendence.
nursing in illness and suffering. (DVD) For Escola In M. J. Smith & P. R. Liehr (Eds.), Middle range
Superior da Saúde Instituto Politécnico de Leiria theory for nursing (3rd ed.). New York: Springer.
Research Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

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