ABSTRACT At the start of academic nursing in the United States, nurses philosophized. And they did it grandly. So grandly in fact that this entire period (beginning in the mid 1900s) has been called the era of grand nursing theory. Grand nursing theory attempted to express the conceptual side of nursing but struggled, not least in confusing philosophy with theory. Nevertheless, grand nursing theories are still actively promoted in nursing education, practice, and research, suggesting there is something to them that continues to resonate with nursing. This resonating something can be made more consistent when connected to the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. For Deleuze philosophy is not a tracing of the actual in terms of theory. Rather, every actuality involves a ‘shadowy and secret part,’ which is its conceptuality, and which is the work of philosophy to construct. It is this conceptuality that speaks the shadowy part of an actuality, and which Deleuze calls an event. An analysis of a 2008 paper by grand nursing theorist Margaret Newman and colleagues demonstrates that they were trying to speak an event of nursing through creative gestures such as ‘rhythmic fluctua
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