PATTERNS OF KNOWING Five Fundamental Patterns of Knowing Theorists such as Carper, Chinn and Kramer have helped guide the development of nursing.

 As nurses, we face challenges while trying to provide the best patient care. Our past experiences along with reflections will help to shape future patient interactions. The purpose of this paper is to analyze Carper’s five fundamental patterns of knowing and relate it back to a personal patient experience that I have had. Description of Experience One day while I was in charge and taking care of a 63-year-old-female who had three falls that admission due to confusion. She was to be discharged to rehab but was unable to leave until her constant observation was discontinued. Besides being on the 1:1 observation, she had no reason to be on the oncology unit as her treatment was completed. This was a tricky situation, and I was just so confused as to what to do. I called the covering manager for assistance and was told the patient can have a camera in the room instead of being on the 1:1. I explained that we used a camera before, and she still fell. The manager decided it will be okay to place the patient on an unofficial 1:1. This meant that there would be no order for the 1:1 but there will be a hospital personnel sitting with the patient which would take away