An individuals’ philosophical framework on how they see the world around them impacts the way they acquire knowledge about a specific interest. This author identified with quantitative viewpoint and applied the process to the selected phenomenon of interest (POI), antipsychotic medication nonadherence from the lack of insight to determine its affects on hospital readmission rate. This paper introduce Barbara Carpers’ four ways of knowing, a philosophy that approaches nursing knowledge beyond the conventional science to enhance the different means of finding the truth. It incorporates the patient as a source of learning qualitative information from their perspective of their illness by engaging in therapeutic communication. Carpers’ four
