Carper's Fundamental Patterns Of Knowing In Nursing

Four Ways of Knowing and Different Types of Nursing Theories Danielle Berg, Hailey Hunter, Anh Nguyen, Michael Seeley & Christopher Wilson Maryville University Nursing Theory 600 Dr. Deitra Watson September 06, 2013 Carper Four Ways of Knowing and Different Types of Nursing Theories It is essential in nursing to continue learning and applying knowledge to the everyday practice. In doing so, it is important to understand how to organize, test, and apply knowledge to nursing. Barbara Carper

Abstract This paper explores Carper’s four fundamental ways of knowing, including its relationship and application to nursing theory. Carper (1978) identifies four ways of knowing as empirical, personal, ethical, and aesthetic. Each is individually important to nursing, but cannot adequately address the fundamental principles of nursing alone. This paper examines each pattern as expressed herein and ensures that all the relevant areas of nursing are attended to in the most professional, competent

Introduction Carper’s ways of knowing provide a fundamental source of information regarding nursing knowledge and practice. Any professional field is built around a variety of knowledge tenets, which help to organize ideas, test those ideas, and then apply them. Carper’s ways of knowing outline fundamental patterns of deriving knowledge and building experience as far as teaching and the practice of nursing are concerned (Zander, 2007). These patterns are used to explain or develop theory in the teaching

Event Description When I look back, one incident strikes in my head. It took place when I used to work as an ICU nurse in one of the most reputed government hospitals in Nepal, my home country. It was night shift so only four of us were in the ward. Then, the telephone rang. It was from a medical ward notifying that one case of arrhythmia got critical so immediately needs to be transferred to the intensive care unit. The problem was we had total eight beds in ICU ward, which was all occupied at

Labeling Mental Illness in Adolescence Over the past two months that I have spent enhancing my knowledge of mental health nursing with adolescence at the Youth Resource Center (YRC), I have encountered numerous learning opportunities that have allowed me to reflect both upon the profession of nursing as a whole, as well as my own future practice. As nursing students we are taught that the capacity to reflect critically is crucial to a nurse’s ability to grow as a practitioner and become

influenced by Carper’s (1978) fundamental patterns of knowing. Personal Knowledge plays a particularly unique role in the development of all aspects of nursing care. Personal knowledge development is specifically used for the role of FNP by requiring the practitioner to examine his or her own attitudes, behaviors and values in order to reflect upon their own self to be compassionate, and caring, and to provide the highest level of care to patients across the lifespan. Betty Carper’s Pattern of Knowing/

which are also called ways of knowing. a. Empirics b. Esthetics c. Personal Knowledge d. Ethics- Moral knowledge in Nursing a. Empirics- Empirics explains that nurses gain knowledge through nursing science. Evidence based practice is one of the proof of empirics. Nurses examine the data and findings from previous research, understands them and make clinical decision which is called Evidence Based practice (Cipriano, 2007) b. Esthetics- Esthetics means art of nursing which cannot be expressed in

involved in as a nursing student in the clinical setting and how I can critically analyze this situation using Carper’s Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing (1978). This model has helped many practitioners to consider what they learn throughout reflection on their experience within a holistic way. Within Carper’s Ways of Knowing (1978), there are five main aspects. The first aspect of Carper’s Ways of Knowing (1978) is the way of empirics in nursing. The empiric aspect of nursing deals with the

HEALTH SCIENCE JOURNAL ® VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4 (2011) The Value and Significance of Knowing the Patient for Professional Practice, according to the Carper’s Patterns of Knowing Marianna Mantzorou 1, Dimos Mastrogiannis 2 1. RN, MSc, Lecturer, Department of Nursing Β΄, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens, Greece 2. RN, MSc, Lecturer, Department of Nursing, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Lamia, Greece Abstract Background: Τhe scientific value of man relies upon an extension

understanding many of the theoretical templates that nursing scholarship has to offer. While unlikely that a nurse will utilize only one theoretical view, the more robust the toolbox, the better the nurse will be able to handle difficult situations (Kozier, Erb and Blais, 1997). Carper's Way of Knowing- In 1978, Barbara Carper, Professor of Nursing at Texas Woman's University, proposed patterns of healthcare knowing in a journal article in Advances in Nursing Science. Her rationale was that there needed