title: Personal knowing in cancer nursing.
abstract: Nursing practice involves the use of different types of knowledge. This article provides an analysis of personal knowing, one type of nursing knowledge. It uses an example from the cancer nursing literature that reflects the creative and expressive dimensions of personal knowing. The author discusses the social/political process used to determine the validity of this way of knowing and comments on the invaluable contribution that the practice of personal knowing and all types of nursing knowledge lend to the discipline of nursing and to the art and science of cancer nursing.
authors: School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. lajacob@pobox.upenn.edu
authors: L A
authors: LA
authors: Jacobs
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009736:Nursing Process; D015399:Nursing Research; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000379:methods*