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NURS 8002 QUIZ 1 CONTENT EXAM2024-2025
Knowledge - ANSWER is the awareness or experience of reality gained via insight,
learning, or investigation. Within a discipline, it is what we collectively regard as a
relatively correct understanding of the universe as imagined by that discipline. It is
tentative and developed throughout time.
Theory - ANSWER refers to a set of logically interconnected concepts, statements,
propositions, and definitions derived from philosophical beliefs and scientific data
and from which questions and hypotheses can be deduced, tested, and verified; it
attempts to account for or characterize some phenomenon.
Research - ANSWER used to study speculative theory, refine and test the reliability
and validity of established theory, and finally develop new theory.
Clinical reasoning is a cognitive process that enables us to think, find relationships,
and make conclusions about information.
EBP (evidence-based practice) - ANSWER conscientious, explicit, and judicious
use of theory-driven research-based information in making decisions about care
delivery for individuals or groups of patients, taking individual needs and
preferences into consideration; is a process involving the examination and
application of research findings or reliable evidence that has been integrated with
scientific theories.
Primary reference - The source, the author or researcher who created the works, is
the _________________ _____________________.
, Secondary Reference - ANSWER Another author explains or discusses the work,
but did not undertake the original work; textbooks are frequently examples of this.
ANSWER: Blind devotion to medical authorities.
received knowledge - ANSWER 1940s and 50s, learning via listening to others,
nursing education began to shift at this time.
Subjective knowledge - ANSWER 1950s and 1960s, more direct observation, and
authority was absorbed to build a new sense of self, nursing research began during
this time.
procedural knowledge - ANSWER 1970s, nursing began to regard itself as a
scientific subject.
From the late 1980s to the twenty-first century, nursing focused on building theory
to guide practice, expanding the number of middle-range and practice theories.
integrated knowledge In ANSWER second half of the twenty-first century,
assimilation and application of evidence from nursing and other health care
disciplines, and emphasis on nursing science with integration into practice and
translational research.
Epistemology - The study of knowing; what do we know? What is the scope of our
knowledge? How do we decide if we know? What are the prerequisites for
knowledge?
paradigm - ANSWER organizing framework that comprises concepts, theories,
assumptions, beliefs, values, principles that impacts the way a field understands the
subject matter the phenomena of concern in our reality.
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