Using Narrative Reflective Process to augment personal and aesthetic ways of knowing to support holistic person-centred relational practice

Oftentimes, when we, in the nursing profession, speak of knowledge development, we focus mostly on the empirical knowing. Although that is a significant component of how we know, we recognize the value of other ways of knowing, including personal, aesthetic, ethical, and emancipatory knowing. These patterns were originated by Carper in the late nineteen-seventies and more recently extended by Chinn and Kramer. As educators in nursing, we are...