Patterns of Nursing

Question 1

Personal Knowing

Answer 1

Synthesis of perceptions and being with self. developed through art, meditation, dance, music, stories, other expressions. Living and nonliving people or things. Insights through dreams and reflective practices: symbols images, and other connections.

Question 2

Empirical Knowing

Answer 2

Science of nursing. Expressed in models and theories. Direct observation, measurement, and verification

Question 3

Aesthetic Knowing

Answer 3

Explores experiences and meaning in life and self: authentic presence, nurse being facilitator of healing, artfulness of healing environment. Combo of knowledge, experience, instinct, intuition that connects nurse with client in order to explore meaning. Calls forth resources and inner strengths to facilitate healing process.

Question 4

Ethical Knowing

Answer 4

Moral Knowledge that focuses on behaviors, expressions, dimensions of morality and ethics. Valuing and Clarifying situations to create formal moral and ethical behaviors with legal duties. Respect for person, family, community. Encourages constructiveness and relationships that enhance attentiveness, responsiveness, communication, moral action.

Question 5

Not Knowing

Answer 5

Capacity to use healing presence, open to spontaneous moments with no preconceived answers or goals. Engages authenticity, mindfulness, openness, receptivity, surprise, mystery, discovery. Allows new solutions, possibilities, insights to emerge. Acknowledges patterns that may not be understood.

Question 6

Sociopolitical Knowing

Answer 6

Important contextual variables of social, economic, geographic, cultural, political, historical, and other key factors of theoretical, evidence based research. Informed critique and social justice for undeserved voices. Protocol to reduce health disparities.