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WAYS OF KNOWING
Nursing is the profession that include self-determining decision while providing holistic care to each individual patient. During decision making nurses should be very careful in identifying the patient actual need and analyzing the effectiveness of the decision they made. Identifying the patients need and working to fulfil those needs effectively is very challenging. However, nurse’s sometime analyses the need of the patient but the problem is they lack the experiences, skills that needs to tackle with these situations. This process cannot be taught through the universities textbooks. It develops from the innate way of thinking for instance how nurses perceive the situations of patients. On the other hand, knowledge and technical skills are equally important in order to provide …show more content…
This is because, knowledge is the key to encounter any obstacles in medical and any professional realm. Personal knowledge is interrelated with professional experiences. The personal knowledge is obtained either through the organized designed plan such as through various courses of study, or from the general life experiences Adesina, DeBellis and Zannettino, (2014, pg. 399). Meanwhile working at the hospital I applied my personal knowledge to care patients. While providing emotional support I used my general life experiences like how to interact with patient, also let them admit and agree with my statements. On the other hand, my nursing education helped me to organize well developed plan regarding dietary chart, medication, vitals chart, and other necessary documents which are very essential to keep record on health condition of patient. Furthermore, nursing education assisted me while carrying out the hospital procedures. This suggests that adequate personal knowledge helps to maintain the quality of
WAYS OF KNOWING
Nursing is the profession that include self-determining decision while providing holistic care to each individual patient. During decision making nurses should be very careful in identifying the patient actual need and analyzing the effectiveness of the decision they made. Identifying the patients need and working to fulfil those needs effectively is very challenging. However, nurse’s sometime analyses the need of the patient but the problem is they lack the experiences, skills that needs to tackle with these situations. This process cannot be taught through the universities textbooks. It develops from the innate way of thinking for instance how nurses perceive the situations of patients. On the other hand, knowledge and technical skills are equally important in order to provide …show more content…
This is because, knowledge is the key to encounter any obstacles in medical and any professional realm. Personal knowledge is interrelated with professional experiences. The personal knowledge is obtained either through the organized designed plan such as through various courses of study, or from the general life experiences Adesina, DeBellis and Zannettino, (2014, pg. 399). Meanwhile working at the hospital I applied my personal knowledge to care patients. While providing emotional support I used my general life experiences like how to interact with patient, also let them admit and agree with my statements. On the other hand, my nursing education helped me to organize well developed plan regarding dietary chart, medication, vitals chart, and other necessary documents which are very essential to keep record on health condition of patient. Furthermore, nursing education assisted me while carrying out the hospital procedures. This suggests that adequate personal knowledge helps to maintain the quality of