The purpose of this paper is to examine the domains of knowledge required for excellent nursing care, and how these domains link together to provide direction for practice. The domains of knowledge that I believe are of utmost importance when providing nursing care is caring, ethical, science-based, social, clinical, individual, cultural and relational. All of these concepts integrate together to provide holistic care, and serve as a guide in providing positive and competent bedside care to patients (see Figure 1). It enables a nurse to decide what to assess, how to make sense of data, how to plan, how to enact a plan, and how to evaluate whether the plan has had the intended outcome.

Caring is knowledge that is a product of one’s culture, values, experiences, and relationships with others. Caring involves trying to understand your patients health/illness experience, being emotionally present for your patient, doing for your patient what they may not be able to do for themselves, and helping y

Ethical knowledge guides our decision-making and is incorporated into everything that we do. It also aids in prioritizing daily tasks, and in making good, appropriate and responsible decisions. The code of ethics is an important resource that may be used in order to provide safe, competent, and ethical nursing. The code of ethics was designed to guide and direct nursing practice and to promote professional nursing practice.

These nursing domains of knowledge are important in providing excellent bedside care. With experience I hope to incorporate more domains of knowledge into this personalized framework. I do not believe that any of these domains are more important than the other but that they all complement each other in providing holistic care.

Individual knowledge includes experiential knowledge and an individual’s intuition. It can be as valid as scientific knowledge and nurses can be confident in using it as a justification for their actions. Experiential knowledge includes gaining inner personal meaning from life experiences. Some personal experiences may include having a family member or yourse

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