"Emancipatory Knowing" & Patient Outcome??

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I checked out our LRC and looked pretty hard to find any peer reviewed journal article proving a statistical correlation between outcome improvement, and "emancipatory knowing"... found nothing.

It's almost as though there isn't any actual science behind this concept in nursing.

I may very well be wrong though, so if you know of anything, can you please link the journal article, because I'd love to read it.

But what do I do with my unicorn that is pooping soft serve ice cream?

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Specializes in PICU.

It seems like this may be loosely related to mindfulness.

Would a search on nurses and mindfulness lead to better outcomes help?

I am not sure if emancipatory knowing is similar to mindfulness but it sounds similar.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

I'm still unclear what the term means. Can someone please define it in simpler terms for the stoopid among us?

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.
"It's almost as though there isn't any actual science behind this concept in nursing."

And there's it is.

It looks like more of a philosophical stance/theory than a scientific one. Related to Carper's classic philosophical model of the ways of knowing and the Chinn's work on praxis -- combining "knowing" with "doing."

You can't count on justifying philosophy with science. They are 2 different realms of human existence.

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Specializes in OB.
I'm still unclear what the term means. Can someone please define it in simpler terms for the stoopid among us?

Agreed, I'm completely in the dark here. It's some theory that nursing professors use to indoctrinate their students with a particular political agenda? Really?

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Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.

OP, did you find no research on emancipatory knowing at all, or did you find research that did not prove a correlation?

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Specializes in PICU.

So I found this in a google search

Chapter 7 critical theory and emancipatory knowing

It sort of explains it, but I am not convinced that this is something completely new, just something given a fancy tilte

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
Emancipatory knowing: empowering nursing students toward reflection and action. Snyder M. Nursing students in the 21st century are entering highly complex health care systems that require advocates for social justice and human rights on behalf of patients. Nurses are well positioned as patient advocates.

So, indoctrination of nursing students through the unequal power relationship of student/professor to achieve some political end or agenda as a front for the nursing establishment at the school...got it.

Who knew nursing school was so complicated?

Whatever happened to learning to clean up poop without leaving any on the patient?

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
So I found this in a google search

Chapter 7 critical theory and emancipatory knowing

It sort of explains it, but I am not convinced that this is something completely new, just something given a fancy tilte

The link reads like something written by R.D. Laing or L. Ron Hubbard. Wordy, cumbersome and with minimal actual content.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
I had to Google it. 15 years of nursing here.

I just had to say hello to the other Pixie! :D

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It may be easier to find research articles that refute emancipatory knowing such as 'Rethinking Emancipation and Empowerment in Action Research: Lessons From Small Rural Hospitals', Mcleod, M. 2005 Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, in that study the nurses who participated 'became enlightened, but it could not be said that they became emancipated or empowered'

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