Nursing 1060A/B Lecture 3: 1060 Week 3
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Knowledge: something you know from books, or school. Knowing: actually experiencing it and knowing how it feels. Affected by how the person sees the experience. Important to phenomenology, and is important to a holistic care. The study of the origins of nursing knowledge, its structure and methods, the patters pf knowing its members, and the criteria for validating the knowledge and its clains. The study of a way of being, essential to art of nursing and to the philosophy of nursing. It"s a relational quality of being present with another. The ontological quality is evident in a caring attitude, a sense of connectedness, and other healing ways, and through art forms such as poetry, art, literature, journal writing. Scientific form of knowing, or the science of nursing . Medication giving to alter something: esthetic knowledge: Predicting a patient is going to have complications. Therapeutic use of self- knowledge gained from thought alone.