The Four Patterns Of Knowing In Nursing

This article is about the pattern of knowing and understanding of knowing in nursing. The knowledge is can be arbitrary and artificial, therefore, the critical thinking and understanding about the knowledge is necessary.
The four patterns of knowledge are distinguished. The first is empirics of the science of nursing. The knowledge of nursing science has to be systematically organized in order to apply general law and theories. Thus, it can be described and explained. The systematically organized knowledge can predict phenomena of particular concern in health and illness. Also, the knowledge can use the discipline of nursing. When the developing of theories and researches, it is important based on factual evidence. Some conceptual structures can have greater potential than other for providing explanations. Currently, conceptual structure is not generated yet to actual scientific practice. The conceptual structure should continually attempt to observe, describe and classify variation in health or level of wellness, as the expression of human of a human being's relationship. Thus, the first primary pattern of knowing in nursing is experiential, accurate, representative and ultimately aimed at developing abstract and theoretical explanations.
The creative imagination works with discovery in science. The reliable knowledge is that empirical, factual, objectively descriptive and generalizable. Thus, the knowledge in the nursing not only the result of empirical investigation but also it might be described in one part of the art. The art of nursing was closely connected with an imitative learning style and acquisition of knowledge by accumulation of rationalized experiences. Esthetic pattern of knowing is the capacity for participating in experiencing another's feelings is an essential mode of the esthetic pattern of