A 37-year-old Braddon woman has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a man on Monday.

At about 3.30am police allege the woman and a man known to her were inside her Lowanna Street home when she took a steak knife from the kitchen and stabbed him multiple times.

Police found the man outside the unit complex bleeding heavily. Officers provided first aid until paramedics arrived and took him to hospital.

Police arrested the woman inside the unit.

She appeared via a bedside hearing on Wednesday and is charged with attempted murder.