Abstract
This article provides a creative account of contemporary nursing practice challenges by using a unitary appreciative inquiry process to create a metastory. A brief review of the Nurse Manifest Project is followed by the story “Nurse #65X89.” Nurses are encouraged to explore their own emerging stories and to define avenues for action, emancipation, and change for the profession.
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