Four Ways of Knowing

Question 1

What are the four ways of knowing?

Answer 1

Empirical, Ethics, Personal, and Aesthetic

Question 2

This is the MORAL directions of nursing. In the what is good and right in making moral decisions.

Answer 2

Ethics

Question 2

The method by which nurses approach their patients. Involves the entirely of the nurse-patient relationship.

Answer 2

Personal

Question 3

This is the SCIENTIFIC discipline of nursing. The expansion of abstract and theoretical explanations

Answer 3

Empirical

Question 4

This deals with the EMPHATIC aspect of nursing. Significance to particular patients such as feelings, attitudes, and points of view.

Answer 4

Aesthetics

Question 5

The first primary model of knowing.

Answer 5

Empirical

Question 5

The nurse’s ability in changing ways and manner of rendering nursing care based on the ____________________________________

Answer 5

Client’s individual needs and perceptions

Question 6

The concepts of human dignity, service, and respect for life.

Answer 6

Ethical knowing