According to the Chinn and Kramer (2010) personal knowing is important to the development of knowledge central to the practice of nursing. Personal knowing is the process of knowing one’s self and understanding that our behavior, attitude and values affect positively and negatively to others. Personal knowing is involved when nurses engage in the therapeutic use of self in the nurse patient relationship. For instance, care provided to the smoker with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is influenced by the stereotype assumptions that includes who they are and what they are experiencing. As a nurse providing care to this patient, it brings us to the place of knowing what we do and doing what we know. The question “Do I know what I do?”