title: Expert Nurses' Perceptions of the Relevance of Carper's Patterns of Knowing to Junior Nurses.
abstract: This study explored with expert nurses in the UK how nursing wisdom can be developed in new and junior nurses. Carper's patterns of knowing and Benner's novice-to-expert continuum formed the theoretical framework. Employing a constructionist research methodology with participant engagement in co-construction of findings, data were collected via 2 separate cycles comprising 4 consecutive sessions followed by a nationally advertised miniconference. Empirical, ethical, personal, and esthetic knowing was considered evident in junior nurses. Junior nurses in the UK seem to lack a previously unrecognized domain of organizational knowing without which they cannot overcome hegemonic barriers to the successful development of nursing praxis.
authors.affiliation: School of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, London, England.
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Terry
authors.forename: Graham
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carr
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Curzio
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009014:Morals; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D006113:United Kingdom