NSE11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Asepsis, Nursing Diagnosis, Self-Awareness
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Discuss how the various ways of knowing can influence how we come to know, the. 1. development of theory and the description of concepts in the meta-paradigm of nursing (include ethical, personal, aesthetic, empirical, sociopolitical, and emancipatory) Ways of knowing: knowledge that is objective and observable. Provides scientific rationales when choosing appropriate nursing interventions. Ways of knowing: personal knowledge is characterized as subjective concrete and existential. It is a pattern of knowing about self and others, which occurs when nurses connect with the humanness of the client experience. Personal knowledge develops when nurses intuitively understand and connect with clients as unique human beings. Nurses may not be able to define why they intuitively believe something is true, but they trust this knowledge. They have experience with other clients facing similar situations. Self awareness provides nurses with a different authentic dimension of what it means to live through a particular health disruption.
