Cody ch03 V1 20/09/2011 11:11 AM © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION CHAPTER 3 © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Barbara A. Carper, RN, EdD © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU It is the general conception of any field of Identifying Patterns inquiry that ultimately determines the kind of Knowing of knowledge the Learning, field aims to develop © Jones & Bartlett LLC as well © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC as theSALE mannerOR in which that knowledge is to Four fundamental knowing NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION NOT FORpatterns SALE of OR DISTRIBUTION be organized, tested, and applied. The body have been identified from an analysis of the of knowledge that serves as the rationale for conceptual and syntactical structure of nursnursing practice has patterns, forms, and ing knowledge.1 The four patterns are distinstructure that serve as horizons of expecta- guished according to logical type of meaning © Jones & Bartletttions Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC and exemplify characteristic ways of and designated as (1) empirics, the science NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION thinking about phenomena. Understanding of nursing; (2) esthetics, the art of nursing; these patterns is essential for the teaching and (3) the component of a personal knowledge learning of nursing. Such an understanding in nursing; and (4) ethics, the component of does not extend the range of knowledge, but moral knowledge in nursing. © Jones &attention BartletttoLearning, © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L rather involves critical the ques- LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FORtoSALE ORwhat DISTRIBUTION tion of what it means know and kinds Empirics: The Science of Nursing of knowledge are held to be of most value in The term nursing science was rarely used the discipline of nursing. in the literature until the late 1950s. However, © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC Source: Carper, B. A. (1978). Fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing. ANS, 1 (1): 13–24. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT Reprinted with permission from and copyright © 1978 Aspen Publishers, Inc FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION 23 © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC. 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The representation of health NOTisFOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION tion of knowledge. more than the absence of disease a crucial The pattern of knowing that is generally change; it permits health to be thought of as designated as “nursing science” does not a dynamic state or process that changes over presently exhibit the same degree of highly a given period of time and varies according integrated abstract and systematic rather& than a static either/or © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLCexplana- to circumstances © Jones Bartlett Learning, LLC tions SALE characteristic of the more mature sci- entity. The conceptual in OR turn DISTRIBUTION makes NOT FOR OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FORchange SALE ences, although nursing literature reflects this it possible to raise questions that previously as an ideal form. Clearly, there are a number would have been literally unintelligible. of coexisting, and in a few instances competThe discovery that one can usefully conconceptual structures—none of which ceptualize health as something that normally © Jones & Bartletting, Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC has achieved the status of what Kuhn calls a ranges along a continuum has led to attempts NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION scientific paradigm. That is, no single con- to observe, describe, and classify variations in ceptual structure is as yet generally accepted health, or levels of wellness, as expressions of as an example of actual scientific practice a human being’s relationship to the internal “which include[s] law, theory, application, and external environments. Related research © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L and instrumentation together . . . [and] has sought to identify behavioral responses, NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION . . . provide[s] models from which spring both physiological and psychological, that particular coherent traditions of scientific may serve as cues by which one can infer the 2(p10) It could be argued that some range of normal variations of health. It has research.” of these conceptual structures seem to have also attempted to identify and categorize © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC greater potential than others for providing significant etiological factors that serve to NOT FOR SALE that OR systematically DISTRIBUTION SALE OR status. DISTRIBUTION explanations account for promote orNOT inhibitFOR changes in health © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION. © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Cody ch03 V1 20/09/2011 11:11 AM © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Identifying Patterns of Knowing © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC 25 © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L Current Stages The science of nursing at conditions for the normal development of NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION present exhibits aspects of both the “natu- an individual. Thus, the first fundamental pattern of ral history stage of inquiry” and the “stage of deductively formulated theory.” The task knowing in nursing is empirical, factual, of the natural history stage is primarily the descriptive, and ultimately aimed at devel© Jones & Bartlett Learning,ofLLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC and theoretical explanations. description and classification phenomena oping abstract NOT FOR SALE OR speaking, DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION discursively formulated, and that are, generally ascertainable by It is exemplary, 3 direct observation and inspection, but cur- publicly verifiable. rent nursing literature clearly reflects a shift from this descriptive and classification form Esthetics: The Art of Nursing © Jones & Bartlettto Learning, Learning, LLC Few,&ifBartlett indeed any, familiar with the proincreasinglyLLC theoretical analysis, which © is Jones NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION directed toward seeking, or inventing, expla- fessional literature would deny that primary nations to account for observed and classified emphasis is placed on the development of empirical facts. 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Adaptation is seen nursing practice. as crucial in the process of responding to Perhaps this reluctance to acknowledge the environmental demands (usually classi- esthetic component as a fundamental pattern © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L fied as stressors) and enables an individual of knowing in nursing originates in the vigorNOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION to maintain or reestablish the steady state, ous efforts made in the not-so-distant past which is designated as the goal of the system. to exorcise the image of the apprentice-type The developmental models often exhibit a educational system. Within the apprentice more genetic type of explanation in that system, the art of nursing was closely associ© Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC certain events, the developmental tasks, are ated with an imitative learning style and the NOT FOR SALE DISTRIBUTION FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION believed to beOR causally relevant or necessary acquisitionNOT of knowledge by accumulation © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION. © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Cody ch03 V1 20/09/2011 11:11 AM © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION 26 © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Chapter 3: Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L of unrationalized experiences. 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For Wiedenbach, the art of nursing is Weitz suggests that art is too complex and 5 © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC Jonesthe&action Bartlett LLC takenLearning, to provariable to be reduced to a single definition. made visible©through NOT FOR SALEthe OR NOT FOR SALE DISTRIBUTION To conceive taskDISTRIBUTION of esthetic theory as defi- vide whatever the patient requiresOR to restore nition, he says, is logically doomed to failure or extend his [sic] ability to cope with the 8 in that what is called art has no common demands of his [sic] situation, but the action properties—only recognizable similarities. taken, to have an esthetic quality, requires © Jones & BartlettThis Learning, © Jones & Bartlett Learning, the active transformation of theLLC immedifluid andLLC open approach to the underNOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION standing and application of the concept of art ate object—the patient’s behavior—into a and esthetic meaning makes possible a wider direct, nonmediated perception of what is consideration of conditions, situations, and significant in it—that is, what need is actuexperiences in nursing that may properly be ally being expressed by the behavior. This © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L of the need expressed is not only called esthetic, including the creative pro- perception NOT SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR ORpattern DISTRIBUTION by FOR the nurse cess of discovery in theSALE empirical of responsible for the action taken but reflected in it. knowing. The esthetic process described by Esthetics Versus Scientific Meaning Despite this open texture of the concept of art, Wiedenbach resembles what Dewey refers between recognition and esthetic meaningsLearning, can be distinguished © Jones & Bartlett LLC from to as the difference © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC 9 According to Dewey, those SALE in science in several important aspects. perception.NOT NOT FOR OR DISTRIBUTION FOR SALE OR recogDISTRIBUTION The recognition “that art is expressive rather nition serves the purpose of identification than merely formal or descriptive,” accord- and is satisfied when a name tag or label is ing to Rader, “is about as well established as attached according to some stereotype or 6(p xvi) previously formed scheme of classification. fact in the LLC whole field of esthetics.” © Jones © Jones & Bartlettany Learning, & Bartlett Learning, LLC An esthetic experience involves the creation Perception, however, goes beyond recogniNOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION and/or appreciation of a singular, particular, tion in that it includes an active gathering subjective expression of imagined possibili- together of details and scattered particulars ties or equivalent realities that “resists projec- into an experienced whole for the purpose of 7 tion into the discursive form of language.” seeing what is there. It is perception rather © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L Knowledge gained by empirical description than mere recognition that results in a unity NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION is discursively formulated and publicly veri- of ends and means that gives the action taken fiable. The knowledge gained by subjective an esthetic quality. acquaintance, the direct feeling of experience, Orem speaks of the art of nursing as defines discursive formulation. Although an being “expressed by the individual nurse © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC esthetic expression required abstraction, through her creativity and style in designNOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE DISTRIBUTION it remains specific and unique rather than ing and providing nursing that OR is effective © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION. © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Cody ch03 V1 20/09/2011 11:11 AM © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Identifying Patterns of Knowing © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC 10(p155) 27 © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L The art of nursing same time, increased awareness of the variand satisfying.” NOT SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE DISTRIBUTION is creative in that it requires OR development ety of subjective experiences will FOR heighten of the ability to “envision valid modes of the complexity and difficulty of the decision helping in relation to ‘results’ which are making involved. 10(p69) This again invokes appropriate.” The design of nursing care must be accom© Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones Bartlett Learning, LLC Dewey’s sense of a perceived unity between panied by what Langer&refers to as sense of NOT FOR SALE OR NOT SALE OR DISTRIBUTION an action taken andDISTRIBUTION its result—a perception form, the sense of FOR “structure, articulation, a 9 of the means of the end as an organic whole. whole resulting from the relation of mutually The experience of helping must be perceived dependent factors, or more precisely, the way 7(p16) The design, if and designed as an integral component of its the whole is put together.” © Jones & Bartlettdesired Learning, © Jones Learning, LLCby the it is to & be Bartlett esthetic, must be controlled resultLLC rather than conceived sepaNOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION rately as an independent action imposed on perception of the balance, rhythm, proporan independent subject. Perhaps this is what tion, and unity of what is done in relation to is meant by the concept of nursing the whole the dynamic integration and articulation of patient or total patient care. If so, what are the the whole. “The doing may be energetic, and Learning, © and Jones & Bartlett Learning, L the undergoing may be acute intense,” qualities © thatJones enable & theBartlett creation of a design LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT SALE or OR DISTRIBUTION are related to for nursing care FOR that eliminate would min- Dewey says, but “unless they imize the fragmentation of means and ends? each other to form a whole,” what is done becomes merely a matter of mechanical rou9 Esthetic Pattern of Knowing tine or of caprice. is, the capacity The esthetic pattern of nursing © JonesEmpathy—that & Bartlett Learning, LLC for par© Jones &knowing BartlettinLearning, LLC ticipating in OR or vicariously experiencing involves theNOT perception abstracted NOT FOR SALE DISTRIBUTION FORofSALE ORparticuDISTRIBUTION another’s feelings—is an important mode in lars as distinguished from the recognition of the esthetic pattern of knowing. One gains abstracted universals. It is the knowing of a knowledge of another person’s singular, unique particular rather than an exemplary feltLLC experience through empathic class. & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlettparticular, Learning, © Jones 11,12 Empathy is controlled or acquaintance. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION moderated by psychic distance or detach- The Component of Personal ment in order to apprehend and abstract Knowledge Personal knowledge as a fundamental what we are attending to and in this sense is objective. The more skilled the nurse pattern of knowing in nursing is the most © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L becomes in perceiving and empathizing problematic, the most difficult to master and NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION with the lives of others, the more knowledge to teach. At the same time, it is perhaps the or understanding will be gained of alternate pattern most essential to understanding the modes of perceiving reality. The nurse will meaning of health in terms of individual wellthereby have available a larger repertoire of being. Nursing considered as an interpersonal © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC choices in designing and providing nursing process involves interactions, relationships, NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT between FOR SALE ORand DISTRIBUTION the nurse the care that is effective and satisfying. At the and transactions © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION. © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Cody ch03 V1 20/09/2011 11:11 AM © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION 28 © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Chapter 3: Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L Maslow refers to this sacrifice of form as patient-client. Mitchell points out that “there NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION is growing evidence that the quality of inter- embodying a more efficient perception of personal contacts has an influence on a per- reality in that reality is not generalized nor son’s becoming ill, coping with illness and predetermined by a complex of concepts, 13(p4950) 15 Certainly the phrase expectations, beliefs, and stereotypes. This becoming well.” © Jones & Bartlett Learning, © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC “therapeutic use of self,” whichLLC has become results in a greater willingness to accept ambiNOT FOR SALE prominent OR DISTRIBUTION NOTand FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION increasingly in the literature, guity, vagueness, discrepancy of oneself implies that the way in which nurses view and others. The risk of commitment involved their own selves and the client is of primary in personal knowledge is what Polanyi calls concern in any therapeutic relationship. the “passionate participation in the act of 16(p17) © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC is concerned with the © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC Personal knowledge knowing.” NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION The nurse in the therapeutic use of self knowing, encountering, and actualizing of the concrete, individual self. 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The relation relation requires the acceptance of others in is one reciprocity, a state of being to create&themselves and the © Jones & of Bartlett Learning, LLCthat can- their freedom © Jones Bartlett Learning, LLC not beSALE described even experienced—it can recognitionNOT that each is OR not aDISTRIBUTION fixed NOT FOR ORorDISTRIBUTION FORperson SALE only be actualized. Such personal knowing entity, but constantly engaged in the process extends not only to other selves but also to of becoming. How then should the nurse recrelations with one’s own self. oncile this with the social and/or professional It requires what responsibility to control and manipulate © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLCBuber refers to as the sac© Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC the rifice of form, that is, categories or classifica- environmental variables and even the behavNOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION tions, for a knowing of infinite possibilities, ior of the person who is a patient in order to as well as the risk of total commitment. maintain or restore a steady state? If a human being is assumed to be free to choose and Even as a melody is not composed chooses behavior outside of accepted norms, © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L of tones, nor a verse of words, nor a how will this affect the action taken in the NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION statue of lines-one must pull and tear therapeutic use of self by the nurse? What to turn a unity into a multiplicity— choices must the nurse make in order to so it is with the human being to know another self in an authentic relation whom I say You. . . . I have to do this apart from the category of patient, even when © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC again and again; but immediately he categorizing for the purpose of treatment is 14(p59) NOT FORisSALE ORYou. DISTRIBUTION FORofSALE OR DISTRIBUTION no longer essential to NOT the process nursing? © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION. © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Cody ch03 V1 20/09/2011 11:11 AM © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Identifying Patterns of Knowing © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC 29 © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L Assumptions regarding human nature, within the complex context of modern health NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION McKay observes, “Range from the existen- care. These choices raise fundamental questialist to the cybernetic, from the idea of an tions about morally right and wrong action information processing machine to one of in connection with the care and treatment of 17(p399) Many of illness and the promotion of health. Moral a many splendored being.” © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC these assumptions incorporate in one form dilemmas arise in situations of ambiguity and NOT FOR SALEtheOR DISTRIBUTION SALE ORofDISTRIBUTION or another notion that there is, for all uncertainty,NOT when FOR the consequences one’s individuals, a characteristic state which actions are difficult to predict and traditional they, by virtue of membership in the species, principles and ethical codes offer no help or must strive to assume or achieve. Empirical seem to result in contradiction. The moral © Jones & Bartlettdescriptions Learning, and LLCclassifications reflect the © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC code that guides the ethical conduct of nurses NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION assumption that being human allows for pre- is based on the primary principle of obligation diction of basic biological, psychological, and embodied in the concepts of service to people social behaviors that will be encountered in and respect for human life. 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It includes all volunNOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION ized as subjective, concrete, and existential. tary actions that are deliberate and subject to It is concerned with the kind of knowing that the judgment of right and wrong—including promotes wholeness and integrity in the per- judgments of moral value in relation to motives, sonal encounter, the achievement of engage- intentions, and traits of character. Nursing is © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L ment rather than detachment, and it denies deliberate action, or a series of actions, planned NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION the manipulative, impersonal orientation. and implemented to accomplish defined goals. Both goals and actions involve choices made, Ethics: The Moral Component in part, on the basis of normative judgments, Teachers and individual practitioners are both particular and general. On occasion, the © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC becoming increasingly sensitive to the dif- principles and norms by which such choices NOT FOR OR DISTRIBUTION NOT SALE OR DISTRIBUTION ficultSALE personal choices that must be made are made may be inFOR conflict. © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION. © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Cody ch03 V1 20/09/2011 11:11 AM © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION 30 © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Chapter 3: Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L According to Berthold, “Goals are, of certain sorts of value questions about what FORhim SALE OR DISTRIBU NOTjudgments FOR SALE DISTRIBUTION course, value not OR amenable to is and is not important.” NOT This leads 18(p196) scientific inquiry and validation.” to conclude, “That value judgment is far Dickoff, James, and Wiedenbach also call more involved in the making of what are attention to the need to be aware that the commonly thought to be factual statements 20(p220) Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, © Jones & Bartlett specification of goals serves asLLC “a norm or than has been imagined.” NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION The ethical pattern of knowing in nursing standard by which to evaluate activity . . . 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NOT FOR SALE OR NOTknowledge FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION of human behavior in health Understanding four fundamental patterns of and in illness, the esthetic perception of knowing makes possible an increased aware- significant human experiences, a personal ness of the complexity and diversity of nurs- understanding of the unique individuality ing knowledge. © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © make Jones & Bartlett Learning, L of the self, and the capacity to choices Each pattern may be conceived neces- within concrete situations involving NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE OR as DISTRIBUTION particusary for achieving mastery in the discipline, lar moral judgments. Each of these separate but none of them alone should be considered but interrelated and interdependent fundasufficient. Neither are they mutually exclu- mental patterns of knowing should be taught sive.&The teaching and learning of one pat- and understood according to its distinctive © Jones Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC tern do not require the rejection or neglect of logic, the restricted circumstances in DISTRIBUTION which NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR any of the others. Caring for another requires it is valid, the kinds of data it subsumes, and the achievements of nursing science, that is, the methods by which each particular kind of the knowledge of empirical facts systemati- truth is distinguished and warranted. cally organized into theoretical explanations The& major significances to the discipline © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones Bartlett Learning, LLC of regarding the phenomena of health and ill- nursing in distinguishing patterns of knowNOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION ness, but creative imagination also plays its ing are summarized as (1) the conclusions part in the syntax of discovery in science, as of the discipline conceived as subject matter well as in developing the ability to imagine the cannot be taught or learned without referconsequences of alternative moral choices. ence to the structure of the discipline—the © Jones & Bartlett LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L Personal knowledge is essentialLearning, for ethi- representative concepts and methods of NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE DISTRIBUTION cal choices in that moral actionOR presupposes inquiry that determine the kind of knowlpersonal maturity and freedom. If the goals edge gained and limit its meaning, scope, of nursing are to be more than conformance and validity; (2) each of the fundamental to unexamined norms, if the “ought” is not patterns of knowing represents a necessary © Jones Bartlett Learning, © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC to be&determined simply on theLLC basis of what but not complete approach to the problems NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION. © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Cody ch03 V1 20/09/2011 11:11 AM © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION 32 © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Chapter 3: Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L 6. 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With each change in the A Helping Art (New York: Springer shape of knowledge, teaching and learning Publishing Co., Inc., 1964). require looking for different points of contact © Jones & Bartlettand Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett LLC York: 9. Dewey, J. Art asLearning, Experience (New connection among ideas and things. This NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Capricorn Books, 1958). clarifies the effect of each new thing known on other things known and the discovery 10. Orem, D. E. Nursing: Concepts of Practice (New York: McGraw-Hill Book of new patterns by which each connection Co., 1971). modifies the whole. © Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC © Jones & Bartlett Learning, L 11. Lee, V. “Empathy” in Rader, M., ed. A NOT SALE OR DISTRIBU NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION Modern Book of Esthetics, 3rdFOR ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, References 1960). 1. Carper, B. A. “Fundamental Patterns of 12. 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