Nursing 1160A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tacit Knowledge, Scientism, Deductive Reasoning
28 Feb 2016
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The value and significance of knowing the patient for professional practice. Effort to know man through putting together conceptions, perceptions, remembrances, and reflections for meaningful conclusions: comes from nursing science, art, or experience. Creates a unique process and product: reason is the only source of knowledge, rather than experience, nursing was influenced by scientism; states that only reality is that which can be. Carper"s patterns of knowing disciple of nursing: enhanced understanding of types of knowledge and theory in the practice-oriented. Include empirical, as well as aesthetic, personal, and ethical knowing. All are necessary, interrelated, interdependent, and overlapping which create the whole of knowing. Purpose is to describe, explain, and predict natural and social phenomena: synonymous with science. Reality may be validated by different observers. Knowledge can be obtained only through the senses. How is it representative: critical need for nurses to expand empirical knowledge. Not addressed only toward observable characteristics and behaviours but also related to human.
