Impoartant

Question 1

Nursing is recognized as an

Answer 1

Emerging profession and academic discipline

Question 2

Characteristics of a profession

Answer 2

-Defined as a specialized knowledge base
-Control and authority over training and education
-Credentialing system or registration to ensure competence
-Altruistic service to society
-Code of ethics
-Formal training within institutions of higher education
-Lengthy socialization of profession
-Autonomy (control of professional activities)
-Professions must have a group who work to advance the knowledge of the profession

Question 3

Nursing philosophy is a

Answer 3

Statement of foundational and universal assumptions, beliefs and principles about the nature of knowledge and thought (epistemology) and about the nature of entities represented in the meat paradigm. It refers to the worldview of the profession (multi paradigm discipline)

Question 4

Epistemology’s

Answer 4

The study of knowing or ways of knowing, the study of the theory of knowledge (how do we decide weather we know? What do we know?)

Question 5

The goal of nursing science

Answer 5

To identify and apply the discipline spesific knowledge, and recognize the relationships of human response in health and illness and adress biological, behavioural, social, and cultural domains

Question 6

Ontology

Answer 6

The study of being

Question 7

Methodology

Answer 7

Is the means/ways of acquiring knowledge

Question 8

Three categories of theory

Answer 8

-Classic human needs theory
-Interactive theories
-Unitary process theories