- Mario R Ortiz: Dean and Professor, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Binghamton University. ORCID
Discipline specific policies that utilize nursing's unique knowledge base provide nurses with ways of seeing and comprehending policies in light of nursing theoretical concepts. Humanbecoming has been used to guide the development of health policies in a variety of settings. In this paper, the author explores the importance of words in crafting health and nursing policies grounded in discipline-specific knowledge, such as the humanbecoming paradigm.