Nursing 1060A/B Chapter week 2: 1060 reading note Week 2
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Finding patterns of knowing in the work of florence nightingale. Integration and contextualization of the pattern represent the challenge to nursing professionals. Knowing ways of perceiving and understanding the self and the world as an ontological, dynamic, changing process. Science of nursing (cid:498)based on the assumption that what is known is accessible. Patterns rests on notion of objective knowable reality, which scientists may through the sense: seeing, touching, hearing objectively draw a conclusion and generate hypothesis. Sensory observations to know washing was therapeutic nursing for clients. Experiential, non-verbal and shared by nurse and the client. Based on shared moments and perception of what is meaningful, the course of interactions of the nurse in relation to others nursing action unfolds as a transformative art/act. Expressed through the actions, bearing, conduct, attitudes, narrative and. Critical questions for validating aesthetic way of knowing (cid:498)what does this mean? (cid:499) (cid:498)how is this significant? (cid:499)