Emergency Room Nurse Scenario Analysis

I enjoyed reading your post and your scenario, I am an emergency room nurse, and I can relate to the situation that you wrote about. The scenario that you chose to write about was a great example of the multiple ways of knowing that a nurse can perform during a situation. As you stated in your post it is important to make the patient comfortable while taking care of them, especially in this situation. If the patient was to get anxious and nervous it could possibly make what was happening to him worse. I believe that in the emergency room we get to know the doctors that are working closely with us and are able to anticipate what he or she will want and order, as you mentioned in your post. The scenario that you wrote about covers all the multiple ways of knowing in nursing. When we as nurses are taking care of patient, especially in this situation we tend not to think about the different ways of knowing. Nurses do what he or she needs to do to save the patient’s life and think about the situation more after. I know personally I do what a need to do in the situation to save the patient’s life and then afterwards I think back and ask the doctor what I could have done
Sometimes, however, it is difficult for the nurse to have multiple views especially when he or she is in a situation. That is why it is helpful to have the doctors and other nurses in the room to help with the multiple views for the situation. As stated in the article about multiple ways of knowing in the emergency room, “multiple ways of knowing, strengthens the nurse-patient relationship and increases the likelihood that the patient will receive, ethical, invidualized and effective care” (Carnago & Mast, 2015, p. 390). By the nurse, having multiple ways of nurse can improve the patient care, which he or she is