Introduction
In this paper, I will investigate the rational justification of why personal knowing and self awareness is essential to psychiatric nursing. In 1978 Carper developed the Fundamental Patterns of Knowing within the nursing discipline. She identifies four patterns, I shall argue that the personal knowing is the most important and essential pattern to psychiatric nursing. I believe this because personal knowing provide us with a knowledge base to apply in practice, personal knowing helps nurses pull from experiences to make moral and ethical decisions and personal knowing is required to properly exercise the therapeutic use of self. The reasons listed above are why I believe the personal knowing is the most important and essential pattern to psychiatric nursing developed by Carper (1978). Psychiatric nursing can be describes as a type of nursing the focus on the mental health of the patient and caring for those who live with psychiatric illnesses. As psychiatric nurses the most …show more content…
Having access to these knowledge helps a nurse to make better decision based on their ethical and moral views and professional responsibility. Using this personal knowledge will help enable nurses to justify their actions and as well help them recognize poor practices. In crucial times personal knowing and self awareness may mean the difference between life and death. Although empirical knowledge is important to psychiatric nursing it is my claim that personal knowing is the most important. Having the scientific and empirical knowledge is important however without personal knowing applying this knowing is not possible. Ethical knowing is also important to nursing it provides nurses with ethical framework for practice, however without being self aware of our feelings regarding ethics and moral through personal knowing it is difficult to properly apply ethics in
In this paper, I will investigate the rational justification of why personal knowing and self awareness is essential to psychiatric nursing. In 1978 Carper developed the Fundamental Patterns of Knowing within the nursing discipline. She identifies four patterns, I shall argue that the personal knowing is the most important and essential pattern to psychiatric nursing. I believe this because personal knowing provide us with a knowledge base to apply in practice, personal knowing helps nurses pull from experiences to make moral and ethical decisions and personal knowing is required to properly exercise the therapeutic use of self. The reasons listed above are why I believe the personal knowing is the most important and essential pattern to psychiatric nursing developed by Carper (1978). Psychiatric nursing can be describes as a type of nursing the focus on the mental health of the patient and caring for those who live with psychiatric illnesses. As psychiatric nurses the most …show more content…
Having access to these knowledge helps a nurse to make better decision based on their ethical and moral views and professional responsibility. Using this personal knowledge will help enable nurses to justify their actions and as well help them recognize poor practices. In crucial times personal knowing and self awareness may mean the difference between life and death. Although empirical knowledge is important to psychiatric nursing it is my claim that personal knowing is the most important. Having the scientific and empirical knowledge is important however without personal knowing applying this knowing is not possible. Ethical knowing is also important to nursing it provides nurses with ethical framework for practice, however without being self aware of our feelings regarding ethics and moral through personal knowing it is difficult to properly apply ethics in