Nursing 1160A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Active Listening, Deductive Reasoning, Normative Ethics
7 Jun 2016
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1160 week 1 reading- the value and significance of knowing the. Patient for professional practice, according to the carper"s. Rationalism the only source of knowledge is reason rather than experience. Human meanings and concerns are difficult to be formalized. Nursing theorists have considered other legitimate ways of knowing. The patterns of knowing gave a new perspective on out understanding of types of knowledge and theory needed in practice oriented discipline. Boykin et al reject this thesis, proposing that is the conception of nursing which provides the structure of nursing knowledge rather than the patterns of knowing. Purpose to describe, explain and, predict natural and social phenomena. Reality can be validated by different observers and knowledge can be only obtained through the senses. Now includes inductive and deductive reasoning and phenomenology description. Knowledge expression of empirics includes facts, organized descriptions, conceptual models and theories which explain and predict relationships.
