Patterns of Knowing and Being in the COVIDicene An Epistemological and Ontological Reckoning for Posthumans

The crucible of the COVIDicene distills critical issues for nursing knowledge as we navigate our dystopian present while unpacking our oppressive past and reimagining a radical future. Using Barbara Carper's patterns of knowing as a jumping-off point, the authors instigate provocations around traditional disciplinary theorizing for how to value, ground, develop, and position knowledge as nurses. The pandemic has presented nurses with opportunities to shift toward creating a more inclusive and just epistemology. Moving forward, we propose an unfettering of the patterns of knowing, centering emancipatory knowing, ultimately resulting in liberating the patterns from siloization, cocreating justice for praxis.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forth critical issues for nursing knowledge, prompting a reevaluation of traditional disciplinary theorizing. Nurses have the opportunity to create a more inclusive and just epistemology by liberating knowledge patterns and prioritizing emancipatory knowing. This will ultimately lead to justice in practice.