For this assignment, consider Carper’s Ways of Knowing: empirical, personal, ethical, and aesthetic. For each way of knowing, describe a clinical situation including a nursing intervention you implemented while caring for a patient, family, group, or community. In your description, explain how the particular way of knowing informed the decision to implement the intervention.
Use one scholarly reference for each of your four explanations in order to provide support your reasons that a particular intervention is an example of the selected way of knowing. Use a different reference for each of the four descriptions. Use references other than those provided in assigned course readings. APA formatting must be applied and errors in spelling and grammar must be absent; these are standard requirements for presenting scholarly, professional products.
Submission and Point Value:
Please submit paper by the due date and time as indicated in the Course Schedule. This assignment is worth 10 points. See Paper: Ways of Knowing rubric for details.
Criteria
Exemplary
Competent
Not Acceptable
Inclusion of Content
3 Points
Explanation of clinical situation, nursing intervention, and how way of knowing informed intervention choice is entirely clear and thorough for each of the 4 ways of knowing
1.5 Points
Explanation of clinical situation, nursing intervention, and how way of knowing informed intervention choice is moderately clear and thorough for each of the 4 ways of knowing or is provided for 2-3 ways of knowing
0 Points
Explanation of clinical situation, nursing intervention, and how way of knowing informed intervention choice is not clear and thorough for each of the 4 ways of knowing or is provided for 0-1 ways of knowing
Scholarly References
4 Points
Selected a minimum of 4 scholarly references other than course readings and appropriately used to justify each of the 4 intervention-ways of knowing connections
2 Points
Selected 2-3 scholarly references other than course readings and/or appropriately used to justify 2-3 intervention-ways of knowing connections
0 Points
Selected 0-1 scholarly references other than course readings and/or appropriately used to justify 0-1 intervention-ways of knowing connections
Scholarly and Professional Presentation
3 Points
All content is presented in scholarly and professional manner (i.e., no errors in APA formatting, grammar, or spelling)
1.5 Points
Some but not all content is presented in scholarly and professional manner (i.e., no errors in APA formatting, grammar, or spelling)
0 Points
Most content is not presented in scholarly and professional manner (i.e., no errors in APA formatting, grammar, or spelling)
