Empathy on the relationship betweeen nurse and patient: patterns of knoweledge perspective of Barbara Carper

Abstract

People seek through interpersonal relationships, acceptance and belonging to peers, a process that involves the exchange of ideas, thoughts and feelings that identifies them as an important part of a context. Barbara Carper establishes four patterns of knowledge that allow classifying, clarifying, exploring and analyzing the different situations in which the discipline develops, thus favoring the implementation of holistic care. The personal pattern is visualized in the present narrative when the nurse through the self-knowledge seeks the identification of the real needs of the adolescent with the exploration of reliable information. The empirical pattern is addressed at the moment in which the nurse through her scientific knowledge and experience seeks to meet the needs of the adolescent and newborn in a bio psychosocial way. The aesthetic pattern is presented when the nurse shows empathy with the adolescent, making her feel person and mother at the same time and finally the ethical knowledge is identified at the moment where despite the nurse learns from sources not direct the situation of the patient, does not make any judgment or criticism without first looking for the correct information about what the adolescent was living. Nursing narrative through the functional patterns of Barbara Carper allows the identification of health phenomena present in clinical practice and as a consequence the development of skills, assessing attitudes and skills in caring for people.