NSE 11A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Morality, Therapeutic Touch, Natural Science
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Ways of knowing in nursing test and exam question. A sought to develop a holistic, individualistic and therapeutic of practice away from the behaviour of the medical model : carper identified four patterns of knowing that nurses value & use in practice. They are: empirics science of nursing, ethics obligation - moral code, aesthetics art of nursing, personal knowing client-nurse relationship. Influence on development of theory & description of concepts: empirical knowing has prevailed as an approach to knowledge development. Chinn & kramer (2011) identified socio-political and economic components and labelled it, emancipatory knowing. Revealed through reflection concerns self-understanding, empathy and compassion (gregory, raymond-seniuk, patrick & stephen, 2015, p. 20: communicated to others as authentic & genuine, acknowledges humanness of one another, nurse-client relationship. Interactions with others can personal knowledge through reflection on self: understand health in terms of well being, risk of commitment is what caper passionate participation in the act of knowing .