Ways Of Knowing Flashcards
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knowing
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- way of perceiving, understanding, and learning about self and world
- knowing expressed in a form that can be shared
2
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epistemology
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- how do you know what you know
- through different ways of knowing
3
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Carpers theory: Patterns of Knowing
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- nursing involve processes of dynamic interaction
- nurses often know more than they communicate
- empirical knowledge is just one of the types used by nurses
4
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Aims of Carper
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- formally express nursing knowledge
- provide professional and discipline identity
- convert to others what nursing contributes
- create expert and effective nursing practice
5
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why do nurses create theories
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- to address nursing phenomena
- previously adapted from related disciplines
- to develop nursings own body of knowledge
- to further nursing as scholarly profession/science
- to organize/improve delivery of nursing care
- to create tools that provide structure for improvement of nursing practice/education
6
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reflective practice
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- examination of clinical anecdotes, observations, and lived experienced
- what was desired/achieved
- to understand how outcomes can be improved
- compare what is known
7
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theory testing
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- goodness of fit
- how closely does theory mirror what is seen in practice
8
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philosophy
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- a system of beliefs regarding the general nature of all things
- mortality, ethics, how world should be viewed
9
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purpose of nursing philosophy
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- define and document what nursing is
- categorize and clarify scope and depth of professional activities on personal and global level
- science and art
10
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how are philosophies created
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- experience
- knowledge and beliefs
- culture and traditions
11
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Geoeges Seurat and nursing philosophies
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- pointillism paintings
- up close points of colour (specific nursing ideas)
- far away colours mix to see image (nursing as a whole)
