Examples Of Emancipatory Knowing In Nursing

When looking at Nursing as a profession, it is important to identify the body of knowledge which pertains to its profession. According to Carper (1978) the body of knowledge that serves as a rationale for nursing practice has patterns, forms and structure. Understanding these patterns is essential for the teaching and learning of nursing as a profession. Carper (1978) identifies four fundamental patterns of knowing and are known to be empirics, ethical, aesthetics and personal knowledge. Chinn

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

In today’s nursing profession, there is an emphasis on providing the best quality of care through evidence-based research. Nursing research provides the foundation for professional nursing practice (Fawcett, & Garity, 2009). Research, theory, and practice are interrelated. Through practice, questions arise challenging prevailing theories. This produces new theories. Theories guide nursing research. Evidence gathered through nursing research generates new nursing knowledge for practice. Therefore

ability to observe patterns. (Cruickshank, 2012).The development of nursing knowledge has been greatly influenced by medicine, which uses a positivist paradigm a world-view that values scientific objectivity in understanding human experience (Pratt, 2012). We practice holistic nursing approach in restoring and maintaining individuals’ health and wellbeing instead of focusing on the curing of the disease. The mainstream development of nursing knowledge is still dominated by the positivistic perspective

are in the advancement of nursing practice. As a nursing student, many different theories have helped enhance my critical thinking, self-awareness, challenged me to be open-minded. Moreover, it as influenced me to care for the biopsychosocial being of the client. According to Peisachovich, (2016) reflection-beyond-action permits professionals with the capability and understanding to “view practice as a holistic approach to care” (p.10). As I reflect on my previous nursing theory and everything that

theories are in the advancement of nursing practice. These theories have helped enhance my critical thinking, self-awareness, challenged me to be open-minded. Moreover, it as influenced me to care for the biopsychosocial being of the client. According to Peisachovich, (2016) reflection-beyond-action permits professionals with the capability and understanding to “view practice as a holistic approach to care” (p.10). As I reflect on my trajectory from my previous nursing theory on the caring aspect in

of this paper is to explore the nursing knowledge, philosophies, reflective practice, theories, and how they have shaped the nursing practice and nursing today. Nursing is dynamic and evolving, and nurses need to acquire new knowledge to provide optimal care for patients. Nurses need to use practical knowledge, reflective practice, and experience they have acquired throughout their nursing profession together with the knowledge of theories when providing nursing care for positive outcomes. Theories

Chira Beth-El School of Nursing Nurs 6100 Dr.Katz March 28, 2015 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explore how the nursing knowledge, philosophies, reflective practice, theories, and how they have shaped the nursing practice and nursing today. Nursing is dynamic and evolving, and nurses need to acquire new knowledge to provide optimal care for patients. Nurses need to use practical knowledge, reflective practice, and experience they have acquired throughout their nursing profession together

objectivity is the only truth, that all questions could be answered by a hierarchy of sciences, principles, and beliefs: "Knowledge was equated with science and science was reality" is the summation found in a postmodern perspective on evidence-based nursing (Marks-Maran 1999, p. 4). That grand narrative was discredited in the 1970s and 1980s, according to a postmodern perspective on home economics history, when society discovered that problems like war, poverty, violence, and drug abuse could be neither

Phenomenology as Research Method by Beverley Campbell, Victoria University of Technology Outline of the paper This paper is an account, the interweaving, of the narrative of the writing of my own thesis using a phenomenological approach, with my developing interest in phenomenology as research method. My study of personal transformation provides the context for these reflections on phenomenology as research method. I have spoken in other forums about the content of the research; in this