fundamentals of nursing ch 2 Flashcards
What are the 3 sources of Nursing Knowledge?
Traditional, Authoritative and Scientific
Traditional Nursing Knowledge
Nursing practice passed down from generation to generation
Authoritative Nursing Knowledge
Comes from an expert and accepted as truth based on the person’s perceived expertise.
Scientific Nursing Knowledge
Knowledge obtained through scientific method. New ideas tested and measured using objective criteria.
Traditional and Authoritative knowledge are based on what kind of data?
Practical to implement but based on subjective data.
The development of nursing knowledge was influenced by the early work of who?
Florence Nightingale
What is a theory?
A group of concepts that describe a pattern of reality.
What are concepts?
Abstract impressions organized into symbols of reality. They describe objects, properties and events, and the relationships among them.
A group of concepts that follows an understandable pattern makes up a what?
Conceptual Framework or model.
Theories can be tested, changed or used to guide research or provide a base for evaluation but they are derived through two principle methods which are ______ and _______.
Deductive reasoning and Inductive reasoning
This principle method of theory is one in which one examines a general idea, then considers specific actions or ideas.
Deductive reasoning
This method of theory is one in which one examines a general idea and then considers specific actions or ideas.
Inductive reasoning
Four common concepts in Nursing theory that infuence and determine nursing practice
The PERSON (Patient), ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH and NURSING.
According to the NINR, the goals of nursing research are to
BUILD scientific foundation for the clinical practice, PREVENT disease or disability, MANAGE and eliminate symptoms caused by illness and ENHANCE end of life.
What are the two methodologies for conducting nursing research?
Quantitative and Qualitative
