In this assignment, consider each of Carper’s Ways of Knowing: empirical, personal, ethical, and aesthetic. For each way of knowing, describe a particular clinical intervention that you employed for a patient, family, group, or community. In your description, explain how the intervention was informed by that particular “way” of nursing knowledge.
Learning Objectives Explore the development of nursing knowledge in the context of nursing science.
Directions
1. For each way of knowing, describe a particular clinical intervention that you employed for a patient, family, group or community. You will describe a total of four interventions.
• In your description of each intervention, explain how the intervention was informed by that particular “way” of nursing knowledge.
• Support your descriptions with credible arguments. In other words, explain why you believe this particular intervention is an example of the selected way of knowing.
• Cite credible sources to support your arguments.
Cotton, A. H., & Roden, J. (2006). Using patterns of knowing in nursing as a possible framework for nursing care of homeless families with children. Contemporary Nurse.