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KNOWING THROUGH INQU IRY - NURS2420
FINAL (ALL CORRECT)
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 defined as?
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
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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; exiting 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?
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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: Empirical, Ethical, Personal, Aesthetic,
Emancipatory
Question: Which way of knowing mainly focuses on how nurses
come to know the science of nursing?
Correct answer: Empirical Knowing
Question: Which way of knowing guides the nursing practice
and is essential in the day-to-day nursing actions?
Correct answer: Ethical Knowing
Question: Which way of knowing focuses on the nurse-client
relationship?
Correct answer: Personal Knowing
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Question: Which way of knowing focuses on the nurse
expressing art through practice?
Correct answer: Aesthetic Knowing
Question: What is the core of all ways of knowing?
Correct answer: Emancipatory Knowing
Question: What are the 5 Components of Environmental Health
(Nightingale)?
Correct answer: Pure Ventilation (pure air), Pure Water,
Efficient Drainage, Cleanliness (bathing and hand washing), Light (to dispel the darkness)
Question: What is Interpersonal Relations in Nursing (Hildegard
Peplau)?
Correct answer: Introduced autonomy of nurses, ideas were
considered too radical; Portrayed the role of the nurse outside of the physician's dictatorship (which paved the way for professionalization of nursing)