Abstract
An idea of wholeness of a person has obtained an agreement as an essential focus of nursing science among nurse theorists. And time and space are the two key concepts to understand wholeness of a person. But for the beginning nursing students, it is very difficult to understand what wholeness of a person means. To help the nursing students understand it, experience of activities of daily living, such as walking, dressing, eating, personal hygiene, elimination, under visual deprivation was planned for 74 college male and female students. The results indicated that under visual deprivation, (1) perception of space become vague and unclear for the students, (2) it was difficult to grasp the abstract idea even if they used remained senses, (3) movements become slower and bigger under visual deprivation, and the students underestimated passing of clock time. Under visual deprivation, they tried to perform activities of daily living by patterning movements and using remained senses fully. Learning ADLs by experiences under visual deprivation is a useful tool to understand the meaning of wholeness of a person.
