PERSONAL KNOWING
Who are the nurse and nursed as caring persons in the moment?
How are the nurse and nursed expressing caring in this moment?
What is the meaning of this situation to the nurse and nursed in
terms of present realities and future possibilities?
What is the meaning of vulnerability and mortality?
What is the value of intuition in practice?
Empirical Knowing
What nursing and related research exists on modes of communication,
the meaning of presence in practice, touch, objectification,
recovery of cardiac patients, technological caring,
understanding the experience of fear and loneliness?
What factual knowledge is needed to be competent in this particular
situation—e.g. knowledge of monitors, chest tubes,
medications, cardiac care, diagnostic data?