Week 2 Flashcards
How do we categorize nursing…
Nursing is catagorized as a profession, an academic discipline, a science and a philosophy.
Ontology
What is reality
Epistemology
What and how can I know reality/knowladge
Theoretical perspective
What approach can we use to get knowladge?
Methodology
What procedure can we use to acquire knowladge?
Methods
What tools can we use to squire knowladge?
Sources
What data can we collect
Received worldview
Told or received - hard sciences (empiricism positivism, logical positivism) deductive, ahistorical, exist as is, one truth, prediction and control.
The four metaparadigms of nursing
-Person
-Enviroment
-Health
-Nursing
How do we categorize nursing?
Profession, academic discipline, science, philosophy
Deductive reasoning
Facts and rules
Inductive reasoning
Reasoning relies on patterns and trends
Peppers 3 world views
-World 1: “real” world - objective
-World 2: your personal knowledge/way of knowing/creating knowledge
-World 3: created knowledge about world 1 through world 2 processes
Ways of knowing
-Personal
-Aesthetic
-Ethical
-Empirical
-Emancipatory
Ways of knowing in epistemology
-Empirics
-Personal Knowladge
-Intuitive knowledge
-Somatic knowladge
-Metaphysical
-Esthetics
-Moral or ethical knowledge
Empirics
The scientific form of knowing. Empirical knowledge comes from observation, testing, and replication
Personal knowledge
A prior knowledge. Knowledge gained from the thought alone.
Intuitive
Included feelings and hunches. Intuitive knowledge is not guessing but relies on nonconsicous pattern Regi notion and experience.
Somatic knowledge
Knowledge of the body in relation to physical movement. Somatic knowledge includes experiential use of muscles and balance to preform a physical task.
Metaphysical (spiritual knowledge)
Seeking the presence of a higher power. Aspects of spiritual knowing include magic, miracles, psychokinesis, extra sensory perception, and NDEs.