Ways of Knowing Nursing is a very rewording profession which can blossom when incorporated into practice of Carper’s fundamental patterns of thinking. After reading Cotton and Roden article (December 2006 – January 2007), I realized great importance of understanding and implementing four concepts of thinking into daily nursing practice. According to Carper (1978:21-22) empirics, aesthetics, personal and ethical way of knowing in nursing are ‘necessary for achieving mastery in the discipline’.
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Ways of Knowing Carper’s Ways of Knowing consists of four different patterns. The ways of knowing patterns are empirical, personal, ethical, and aesthetic. This theory help bring all four ways of knowing into patient care and into the nursing process. Empirical knowing is the scientific knowledge or science of nursing. A 69 year old man under my care in the Emergency Room presented with palpitation with slight chest discomfort. After initiating standing orders for chest pain, labs, IV access
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Applying Ways of Knowing to a Clinical CaseGermaine ShannonUniversity of Central FloridaI was called to the emergency room by one of the nurses working that night. A patient was being discharged home by the emergency room physician, and the patient’s family had requested to speak to the nursing supervisor. When I arrived to the emergency room, the nurse that was taking care of the patient approached me. She pulled me aside, and voiced her concerns. The patient in bed three was sick with a respiratory
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Ways of Knowing D. Boone Ways of Knowing What are the four patterns of knowing fundamental to the professional nurse? Unlike many other professions, the nursing profession has many distinct and unique components. Nurses’ knowledge is acquired from many different sources and life experiences. Although hands on clinical skills are necessary, these skills are not usable alone. The ways of knowing is much more than the educational components of a college degree and licensure. Barbara Carper
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Michael Wyllys Ways of Knowing I firmly grasped my patient’s hand with my own, her breathing rattled through the oxygen mask with each labored gasp. The tourniquet tightly wrapped around her forearm, I ran the alcohol wipe over the precious vein that popped up on the top of her hand. Taking an artist’s grip of the IV catheter, I inserted the needle at a 45-degree angle into the vein. Once seeing the flash of blood in the catheter, the angle was lowered and the needle was advanced ever so
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ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough” Robert Haller. This quotation suggests that an instinctive judgment is not enough to draw conclusions. Ways of knowing need to verify our gut feelings. Before we can actually jump to conclusions, we require ways which we can use to understand the world around us, these are ways of knowing. Sometimes we need to make sure that what our innate feelings tell us; is true. Therefore, we require something to justify and verify our feelings; that is why
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and project is “knowledge”. The basic definition of knowledge is “the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association”. The whole life of a person is based on the idea of learning and knowing everything which is around us. Nowadays people use different ways of knowing (WOK) in order to get a fully reliable information. ‘There are eight different ways of knowing. They are emotion, faith, imagination, intuition, language, memory, reason and sense perception
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“There is no way of knowing what God is like” Christians use the idea of the Holy Trinity to help them to understand God. The Holy Trinity presents God in three ways- God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. This helps because it hard to understand on God as having different personalities, I find it easier to understand God’s personality in those religions with more than one God as they all have specific roles and personalities. Some people might agree with this statement because
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“No Knowledge Can be Discussed in a Single Way of Knowing” Lily Jang Theory of Knowledge February7th Using one way of knowing is not enough to determine whether something is true or whether something is believed to be true. Knowledge can be acquired through eight ways of knowing: memory, perception, emotion, imagination, reason, language, intuition, and faith. Plato defined knowledge as the “justified true belief”, which shows that in order for us to obtain knowledge, we need to know certain
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IN GAINING KNOWLEDGE, EACH AREA OF KNOWLEDGE USES A NETWORK OF WAYS OF KNOWING KQ What does it mean to know? THESIS The two areas of knowledge are history and art and the ways that will be connected to them are memory, emotion, reason, imagination and faith. ROAD MAP I’ll approach my topic with connecting reality to ways of knowing and areas of knowledge using real life situations. CLAIM The only two ways in which humankind can produce knowledge is through passive observation or active
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