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On nursing theories and evidence
Summary
Evidence-based nursing practice requires diverse knowledge patterns beyond empirics. Understanding empirical, ethical, personal, and aesthetic knowing expands evidence for holistic nursing care.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Science
- Epistemology in Healthcare
Background:
- Nursing practice relies on multiple knowledge sources.
- Traditional evidence-based practice often emphasizes empirical data.
Purpose of the Study:
- To broaden the definition of evidence in theory-guided, evidence-based nursing.
- To integrate diverse patterns of knowing into nursing practice.
Main Methods:
- Examining Carper's four fundamental patterns of knowing: empirical, ethical, personal, and aesthetic.
- Exploring distinct modes of inquiry for each pattern of knowing.
Main Results:
- Each pattern of knowing requires specific inquiry methods for knowledge generation.
- Diverse patterns of knowing offer varied evidence sources for nursing.
Conclusions:
- Theory, inquiry, and evidence are interconnected in nursing.
- Different nursing theories provide frameworks for interpreting diverse evidence.
- Holistic nursing practice benefits from theory-guided, evidence-based approaches encompassing all knowing patterns.