Nursing

Clinical knowledge refers to the individual nurse’s personal knowledge. It results from using multiple ways of knowing while solving problems during client care provision. Clinical knowledge is manifested in the acts of practicing nurses and results from combining personal knowledge and empirical knowledge. It may also involve intuitive and subjective knowing. Clinical knowledge is communicated […]

Personal knowledge refers to the way in which nurses view themselves and the client. Personal knowledge is subjective and promotes wholeness and integrity in personal encounters. Engagement, rather than detachment, is a component of personal knowledge. Personal knowledge incorporates experience, knowing, encountering, and actualizing the self within the practice. Personal maturity and freedom are components

Nursing Epistemology Nursing epistemology has been defined as “the study of the origins of nursing knowledge, its structure and methods, the patterns of knowing of its members, and the criteria for validating its knowledge claims” (Schultz & Meleis, 1988, p. 217). Like most disciplines, nursing has both scientific knowledge and knowledge that can be termed

Nursing Philosophy Nursing philosophy has been described as “a statement of foundational and universal assumptions, beliefs and principles about the nature of knowledge and thought (epistemology) and about the nature of the entities represented in the metaparadigm (i.e., nursing practice and human health processes [ontology])” (Reed, 1995, p. 76). Nursing philosophy, then, refers to the

Discuss what you have learned related to the body response to heat (#1_Take away learning) Discuss One of the following using the criteria above (click to access). 1. Discuss what you have learned related to the body’s response to heat (#1_Take away learning) 2. Describe what you believe your response should be as a lay

Reflection of Cultural Competence Transformation There are many factors outside the traditional healthcare setting when it comes to health. These social determinants often cause many of our patients to have negative health outcomes, often at no fault of their own. Over the last 9 months, I am happy to say the clinic I have done

Summative Evaluation in Correlation to AACN Essentials and NONPF Competencies Throughout this program, I have grown into a more confident nurse and patient care provider. I have been a nurse for about 10 years, but have never felt the level of confidence that I have now gained through completion of the MSN//FNP program. I feel

NONPF Core Competencies The National Organization for Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) developed core competencies that reflect the goals for each nurse practitioner program. The NONPF competencies include “1. Scientific Foundations, 2. Leadership, 3. Quality, 4. Practice inquiry, 5. Technology and information literacy, 6. Policy, 7. Health delivery system, 8. Ethics, 9. Independent practice” (Nurse Practitioner

AACNS MSN Essentials The American Association of Colleges of Nursing developed nine Essentials of master’s Education as a guide for the graduate nurse to work in various health care settings (AACN, 2021). The nine essentials are; “1. background for practice from science and humanities, 2. organizational and systems leadership, 3. quality improvement and safety, 4.

Evaluation of Professional Growth and Development as a Graduate Student The three domains of learning are categorized as cognitive, psychomotor, and affective. These categories are the basic objectives to learning and involve recognizing and remembering facts, comprehending facts, and using them in application, analyzing the new knowledge while building a structure or pattern from diverse