SNPG950 – Reflection – UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG – Nursing Assignment The purpose of this assessment.

SNPG950 – Reflection – UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG – Nursing Assignment

The purpose of this assessment is to provide a reflection using a ‘ways of knowing’ approach, in order to help you identify the empirical, aesthetic, ethical and personal factors that can influence your practice. To be able to undertake this reflection, you must have read Barbara Carper’s “Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing” (available through the Moodle site and library ereadings) and undertake the
relevant learning activities in the Topics 1- 3 modules on the Moodle site including. Ways of Knowing. Think about an event in your practice. It does not have to be a critical incident or a negative event. It can be anything that happened that has stayed with you, something you felt good about or you feel you did well. However it must be an event you were actively involved in rather than one you were observing. In addition, regardless of it being a positive or negative event, the quality of the interactions within including the outcome must have the potential to be improved upon. It can be related to any part of your professional life, as a student, clinician, teacher etc. Refer to the discussion in the Moodle site for advice about constitutes an event.

Questions:

1) Briefly, explain the event you are going to analyse. Tell the reader what happened, who did it happen to, what you did, how you felt, what you thought, what was the outcome.

2) Analyse where Carper’s ways of knowing are located within the event. Identify their impact on how the event unfolded including the event outcome. Use Carper’s ways of knowing as subheadings. Even though it is possible that one form of knowledge dominated, you must show evidence of having considered the impact of each way of knowing, and if it is not relevant, explain why not.

3) Empirics (identify and analyse the relevant science, medicine, policy, procedure etc.)
b) Esthetics (identify and analyse the elements of your practice that relate to your own unique style of caring, intuition, empathy etc.) Think about how this is different to empirics.
c) Personal (identify and analyse the ways in which you bought your personal self into this event. How did your values, your ‘therapeutic use of self’ and relationships with others in the event influence the way this event unfolded?)
d) Ethical (identify and analyse the ethical and political aspects of this event. Where the patients’ rights upheld, if not why not, etc.)

4) Summarise your assignment by reflecting on how using ‘ways of knowing’ has helped you understand your practice in new ways including how you could respond differently to change/improve the interactions and outcome should a similar event occur again.