Abstract
This study aimed to clarify and delineate how“the best care for the person”was created using the Pathways to Excellent Nursing Practice（PENP）model that was developed by the author in a previous study. The experience of a nurse in the actual daily child care for her child was analyzed by interpretive phenomenology using the PENP model. The following results were obtained：The mother understood the child from the child’s viewpoint, and developed empathy with the child by linking the child’s expression, the problem/ contradiction in the child’s mind world, and the child’s experience world. Then, the mother set a goal for solving the problem/contradiction in the child’s mind world, and took measures based on the factors in the child’s experience world that produced the problem/contradiction in the child’s mind world. Finally, the mother put the measures into practice with the aim of achieving the goal. The findings of this study can be refined, and should contribute to the development of an education system for creating and offering“the best care for the person”．
