Multiple ways of knowing caring : nursing instructor's clinical evaluations

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dc.contributor.authorClark, Catherine Shawnen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-13T17:54:25Z
dc.date.available2024-08-13T17:54:25Z
dc.date.copyright1994en_US
dc.date.issued1994
dc.degree.departmentFaculty of Education
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThe intent for this thesis was to construct an understanding of how clinical nursing instructors evaluate caring. The question served as an invitation to think about how multiple ways of knowing inform the instructor's understanding. A hermeneutic inquiry was employed to construct meanings of caring and further engage those meanings to understand how they have an impact on the clinical instructors' evaluation. The interpretive inquiry began by considering the difficulty participants experienced when asked to describe caring but found a worthy vehicle in the use of story to expose their meanings of caring. From the stories the themes of being involved, qualitative touch and the gift of time were suggested as characteristics of caring. A note of caution was assumed to remind us that these themes were always set against the backdrop of the context and situatedness of the story. Evaluation of caring was then explored and several salient features from those conversations were captured. Instructors revel in the recognition of caring in their nursing students and cannot always articulate specifically what that recognition is based on. Caring is a recognizable yet intangible substance or quality which does not lend itself to definition or abstraction. The experience of caring is larger than a sum of its parts and must be viewed in wholeness. It is impossible to extract the essence of caring without reference to the whole. Caring becomes further distorted when viewed within the reductionist evaluation framework of behavioral objectives and we must find other means, forms of inquiry and ways of knowing for accessing this aspect of student nurses' practice.en
dc.format.extent113 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/17493
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titleMultiple ways of knowing caring : nursing instructor's clinical evaluationsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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