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4.Pattern manifestation knowing and appreciation
includes participant selection, in-depth dialogu-
ing, and recording pattern manifestations.
Participant selection is made using intensive
purposive sampling. Patterning manifestation
knowing and appreciation occurs in a natural
setting and involves using pandimensional
modes of awareness during in-depth dialoguing.
The activities described earlier in the pattern
manifestation knowing and appreciation
process section of the practice method are used
in this research method. However, in the UFPP
research method, the focus of pattern apprecia-
tion and knowing is on experiences, percep-
tions, and expressions associated with the
phenomenon of concern. The researcher also
maintains an informal conversational style while
focusing on revealing the rhythm, flow, and con-

figurations of the pattern manifestations emerg-

ing from the human/environmental mutual field

process associated with the research topic. The

dialogue is taped and transcribed. The re-

searcher maintains observational, methodologi-

cal, and theoretical field notes, and a reflexive

journal. Any artifacts the participant wishes to

share that illuminate the meaning of the phe-

nomenon may also be included.

a.Unitary field pattern profileis a rich descrip-

tion of the participants’ experiences, percep-

tions, and expressions created through a

process ofcreative pattern synthesis. All the

information collected for each participant is

synthesized into a narrative statement reveal-

ing the essence of the participant’s descrip-

tion of the phenomenon of concern. The

field pattern profile is in the language of the

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Immersion

Unitary Field Pattern Portrait

Creative

Pattern

Synthesis

Initial Engagement

Pattern Manifestation Knowing and Appreciation

A Priori Nursing Science

Pattern Profile Construction

Emerging Unitary Themes of

Human-Environmental Pattern of

Manifestations

Mutual

Processing

Mutually Shaped Pattern Profile

Resonating Unitary Themes of Human-Environmental

Pattern Manifestations

Theoretical Unitary Field Pattern Portrait Evolutionary

Immersion/

Crystallization

Interpretation

FIGURE 13–1 The Unitary Field
Pattern Portrait Research Method.