Patterns of knowledge in nursing and their implications in teaching

Abstract

The paper presents nursing as a discipline that is still setting it’s boundaries and that because of this has the need to define it’s own form of knowledge and how to produce and validate it. With this in mind, a brief literature review on knowledge patterns which are specific to nursing, as well as empirical, ethical, esthetical and personal patterns are presented. From the characterization of each one of these patterns, it’s implication in teaching is discussed, highlighting the need to privilege those forms of knowledgs during the process of formal teachinglearning.