title: Death of a newborn: healing the pain through Carper's patterns of knowing in nursing.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nursing, School of Education, New York University, USA.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Sherman
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D018939:Holistic Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D019359:Knowledge; D008297:Male; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009321:Natural Childbirth; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D011247:Pregnancy