Ways of Knowing in Nursing
Read the article, Sherman, D. W. (1997). Death of a newborn: Healing the pain through Carper’s patterns of knowing. Journal of the New York State Nurses Association, 28(1), 4-6.
- Discuss how the “death of a newborn” article illustrates Carper’s four ways of knowing (Empirical, Aesthetic, Personal, and Ethical Knowledge). in informing knowledge development in nursing and clinical practice.
- Based on a clinical nursing experience of your own, identify in your case study Carper’s four ways of knowing and how it has informed your knowledge development and clinical practice. (Explain each of Carper’s ways of knowing and relate it to your example).