Nursing practice draws upon several different ways of knowing LIZ BERRAGAN BN‚ RGN‚ PGCE‚ RNT Freelance Nurse Teacher‚ Agency Nurse‚ c/o General Supply Squadron‚ Cyprus Logistic Unit‚ RAF Akrotiri‚ BFP0 57‚ Cyprus Accepted for publication 8 December 1996 Summary • This paper explores the proposition that nursing practice draws upon several different ways of knowing. • It highlights difficulties often faced by practising nurses in defining what they do and hence what it is that constitutes
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“Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing” categorizes the foundations upon which nursing knowledge is built. It involves four patterns that are essential to the understanding of the field of nursing: empirics‚ esthetics‚ personal knowledge‚ and ethics. Understanding and embracing each pattern is key to full comprehension‚ whether in learning to practice or teaching the practice. Although written in 1978‚ Carper’s theory is just as relevant in today’s world of nursing. The empirical knowledge
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Patterns of Knowing in Nursing Patterns of Knowing in Nursing Nursing education has evolved greatly over the years‚ in the mid-19th century‚ nursing was seen as a mothering and homemaking role; today nursing has a more scientific base (Peplau‚ 1986). Nursing is much more than following doctors’ orders and performing comfort care. Nurses must be able to apply different aspects of knowledge into their care in order to provide quality care to their patients. According to the American
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fundamental ways of knowing makes it possible for nurses to increase their knowledge (Heath‚ 1998). To be able to gain knowledge learning must be done. Gardner introduced multiple intelligences that are used today for learning and teaching (Zander). For nurses to be able to practice‚ they need knowledge‚ which is gained by learning (Berragan‚ 1998). In 1978‚ Carper introduced four ways of knowing‚ which have since been used to structure nursing education and to evaluate nursing practice (Zander)
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Module 3-Ways of Knowing For most‚ their professional career as nurses begins in the classroom at a local college or university where nursing faculty develop and teach them nursing curriculum and skills‚ but nursing education strives to accomplish much more. Following guidelines established by the National League for Nursing (NLN)‚ educators attempt to create meaningful assignments that meet the required program outcomes. These outcomes include human flourishing‚ nursing judgement‚ professional identity
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Patterns of Knowing and Knowledge Mary J. Slatten University Of Mary TMCCA Patterns of Knowing and Knowledge It is suggested that there are five patterns of knowing and knowledge in nursing. A nurse must develop and balance all of these patterns of knowledge in order to be effective. As in all of nursing‚ nurses refine these patterns with experience and reflection throughout his or her career. This knowledge is interrelated‚ interdependent and overlapping. Nurse‚ as any other profession
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patterns of knowing as they influence theory construction or development in nursing: In 1978‚ Barbara Carper identified four types of knowing in nursing. The first type is called empiric knowing and represents knowledge that is verifiable‚ objective‚ factual‚ and research based. The second type called ethical knowing provides us with knowledge that is about what is right and wrong and what are good and bad‚ desirable and undesirable. The third type of knowing is labelled aesthetic knowing. It gives
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Carper (1978) identified four fundamental patterns of knowing which are (1) empirics‚ or the science of nursing; (2) personal knowledge; (3) esthetics‚ or the art of nursing; and (4) ethics‚ or the moral component of nursing. The purpose of this discussion is to explain how each pattern of knowing affects this author’s practice‚ and to identify the author’s preferred paradigm and provide justification for choosing this paradigm. Empirical knowing is based on the belief that what someone knows is objective
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Nursing care‚ patterns of knowing and their integration in nursing there are fundamental patterns of knowing that form the basis of knowledge that every nurse should possess. These are; science of nursing or empirics‚ the art of nursing or esthetics‚ the moral knowledge referred to as ethics‚ emancipator pattern which focuses on injustices that hinder health care and personal knowledge in nursing. When combined together‚ they are the necessary skills set that is valuable in the nursing discipline
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