Expert Nurses' Perceptions of the Relevance of Carper's Patterns of Knowing to Junior Nurses : Advances in Nursing Science

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Expert Nurses' Perceptions of the Relevance of Carper's Patterns of Knowing to Junior Nurses

Terry, Louise PhD, SFHEA, LLB(Hons), FIBMS; Carr, Graham MSc, RNT, RN; Curzio, Joan PhD, RN

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Advances in Nursing Science 40(1):p 85-102, January/March 2017. | DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000142

Abstract

This study explored with expert nurses in the UK how nursing wisdom can be developed in new and junior nurses. Carper's patterns of knowing and Benner's novice-to-expert continuum formed the theoretical framework. Employing a constructionist research methodology with participant engagement in co-construction of findings, data were collected via 2 separate cycles comprising 4 consecutive sessions followed by a nationally advertised miniconference. Empirical, ethical, personal, and esthetic knowing was considered evident in junior nurses. Junior nurses in the UK seem to lack a previously unrecognized domain of organizational knowing without which they cannot overcome hegemonic barriers to the successful development of nursing praxis.

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