NURSING 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Introduction to the fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing. What we believe our disciplinary focus to be will determine what we value as knowledge and how we go about developing that knowledge for our practice. Things that we believe we should develop knowledge about or that we feel to be valuable will determine what our knowledge development products eventually are. There are a whole host of things to know that you cannot learn before you are in a specific situation with a specific patient. Is patient more fearful of male or female nurses. Many situational factors that collectively affect pain relief that must be considered and that reside in each unique situation. Individual responses to pain alleviation that you cannot know until you begin a management regime. Empiric knowledge, personal knowledge, ethical, aesthetic knowing. Emancipatory knowing focuses on developing awareness of social problems and taking action to create social change: ex.