Carper's model of the fundamental patterns of knowing has played a critical role in structuring the body of knowledge that comprises the nursing discipline and nursing theory. As we learned from our previous class assignment, in the late 1970s, Barbara Carper identified four major ways of knowing in nursing: empirical, ethical, personal, and esthetic patterns. These ways outlined the philosophy that helped nursing broaden its focus from scientific knowledge alone to a broader range that formed the foundation of nursing care and nursing theory (“Barbara,” 2015).
Mantzorou and Mastrogiannis in their article The Value and Significance of Knowing the Patient for Professional Practice, According to the Carper’s Patterns of Knowing discuss that for many years nursing was influenced by philosophy that favored knowledge rather than experience. Carper's work on patterns of knowing was a landmark in the nursing literature that gave nursing a new perspective of understanding of types of knowledge and theory needed in a practice (Mantzorou & Mastrogiannis, 2011). In a similar fashion, the author of the article Nurses: Our Ways of Knowing discuss how ways of knowing are exclusive to nursing discipline as well as …show more content…
While teaching, Carper felt concerned about the nursing curriculum's strict focus on science and over the encroaching role of technology and how some doctors and nurses payed more attention to the information on their computer screen, rather than listening to what patients are trying to tell them (“Barbara,” 2015). Carper’s foundational paper was a critical moment in the development of nursing theory demonstrating that nursing practice is based on holistic nursing that includes empirics, but also privileges personal, ethical, and aesthetic knowing (“Barbara,”
Mantzorou and Mastrogiannis in their article The Value and Significance of Knowing the Patient for Professional Practice, According to the Carper’s Patterns of Knowing discuss that for many years nursing was influenced by philosophy that favored knowledge rather than experience. Carper's work on patterns of knowing was a landmark in the nursing literature that gave nursing a new perspective of understanding of types of knowledge and theory needed in a practice (Mantzorou & Mastrogiannis, 2011). In a similar fashion, the author of the article Nurses: Our Ways of Knowing discuss how ways of knowing are exclusive to nursing discipline as well as …show more content…
While teaching, Carper felt concerned about the nursing curriculum's strict focus on science and over the encroaching role of technology and how some doctors and nurses payed more attention to the information on their computer screen, rather than listening to what patients are trying to tell them (“Barbara,” 2015). Carper’s foundational paper was a critical moment in the development of nursing theory demonstrating that nursing practice is based on holistic nursing that includes empirics, but also privileges personal, ethical, and aesthetic knowing (“Barbara,”