Death of a newborn: healing the pain through Carper's patterns of knowing in nursing.
Review
Sherman, DW. (1997). Death of a newborn: healing the pain through Carper's patterns of knowing in nursing.
. Journal of the New York State Nurses Association, 28(1), 4-6.
Sherman, DW. (1997). Death of a newborn: healing the pain through Carper's patterns of knowing in nursing.
. Journal of the New York State Nurses Association, 28(1), 4-6.
This article will explain how a nurse's holistic integration of empirical, esthetic, ethical and personal knowledge, as described by Carper's (1978) patterns of knowing in nursing", guided her teaching and nursing practice and helped a couple heal the pain of their newborn's death.