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NS1012:03
Nursing Inquiry 1 - Ways of Knowing
Townsville, Cairns, Mount Isa,
Thursday Island, External
Available to level 1 students enrolled in the BNSc.
This subject will examine the ways knowledge is generated and accepted by the individual. This includes the use of critical thinking, reflective thinking and their application to problem solving. Alternative cultural approaches to knowledge and their generation are addressed. Nursing knowledge as a unique body of knowledge is identified and explored. Nursing theorists are critiqued.
Ways of knowing: examine more specific models of nursing theory; determine the relationship between theory, research and nursing practice and examine the social and political aspects of research.
Critical/reflective thinking: different notions of critical thinking will be introduced, explored and related to problem solving; different types of knowledge and their place and influence on nursing knowledge; explore personal experience of obtaining knowledge (interpretive); introduction to journalling.
Nursing knowledge: examine development of nursing knowledge through research. The relationship between knowledge from personal experience and nursing knowledge will be interpreted. Different cultural perspectives on creating knowledge will be examined as well as historical and gender influences on the development of nursing knowledge.
develop processes of critical thinking and reflective practice for incorporation into professional practice;
evaluate, using literature and readings, the impact of various influences on nursing knowledge and practice;