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Question: What is Nursing Theory?
Correct answer: A formal construction of knowledge,
Factors that influence the nursing discipline, What nursing practice is and what it can be, Helps make meaning of what we encounter and see
Question: What is Nursing Praxis?
Correct answer: Taking theory and integrating it into
practice; being, knowing, and doing
Question: What is the Metaparadigm of Nursing?
Correct answer: The core focus and essence of nursing,
Made up of abstract terms, Constructed of 4 concepts:
nursing, person, environment, and health
Question: What is the Paradigm of Nursing?
Correct answer: A worldview and shared perspective, A
consensus reached within a community, Two opposing
perspectives (Parse): Totality and Simultaneity
Question: What is the Totality (Parse) Paradigm?
Correct answer: Humans are integrated beings with
distinguishable dimension. They adapt to their
environment (i.e. health and illness are states along a continuum). If a person loses a limb or becomes ill, they are no less a person and will adapt with these changes."Car still car"
Question: What is the Simultaneity (Parse) Paradigm?
Correct answer: Humans are unitary and cannot be
reduced or broken down into separate components (mind, body, and spirit are one). Humans are irreducible and connected to the universe; existing in a continuous process with the environment rather than adapting with
what we have or do not have. Cake: if you take the
chocolate out of the cake it is no longer a chocolate cake
Question: What are Grand Theories and Conceptual
Models?
Correct answer: Conceptualizations of the profession and
practice, Broad terms that apply across a range of practice settings in nursing, High level and connects abstract ideas, Indicates the relationships between other concepts
Question: What are Middle Range and Practice Level
Theories?
Correct answer: Least abstract of the nursing theories,
Most rapidly growing, Hands-on application, Middle
Range: derived from a specific grand theory and tests the
relationships identified, Practice Level: day-to-day
experiences, closely aligned with a specific work of nursing in a given field
Question: What are the five ways of knowing?
Correct answer: 1. Empirical, 2. Ethical, 3. Personal, 4.
Aesthetic, 5. Emancipatory
Question: Which way of knowing mainly focuses on
how nurses come to know the science of nursing?
Correct answer: Empirical Knowing, Also focuses on
knowing actual theories, concepts, and principles, Objective knowledge and can be arranged into theories
Question: Which way of knowing guides the nursing
practice and is essential in the day-to-day nursing actions?
Correct answer: Ethical Knowing, Informs of right vs.
wrong, Moral knowledge outlined by the CNA, Respects diversity and inclusivity
Question: Which way of knowing focuses on the nurse-
client relationship?
Correct answer: Personal Knowing, Developing a
therapeutic and authentic nurse-client relationship and
being empathetic, Constant reflection on the client, person, and nurse
Question: Which way of knowing focuses on the nurse
expressing art through practice?
Correct answer: Aesthetic Knowing, Creative and
imaginative use of nursing knowledge in practice, Anticipating outcomes rather than just evaluating (expressive and intuitive thinking)
Question: What is the core of all ways of knowing?
Correct answer: Emancipatory Knowing, Gaps where
nursing profession could be better and you bring upon the change, Praxis integrated knowing (knowing, doing, and being), Engagement of political action and strategies to take action for what is right
Question: What are the 5 Components of Environmental
Health (Nightingale)?
Correct answer: 1. Pure Ventilation (pure air), 2. Pure
Water, 3. Efficient Drainage, 4. Cleanliness (bathing and hand washing), 5. Light (to dispel the darkness)
Question: What is Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
(Hildegard Peplau)?