Module 1

Question 1

it is the dynamic skills and methods in assisting the sick and well individual in their recovery and in the promotion and maintenance of health.

Answer 1

Nursing as an art

Question 2

Nursing as an art involves _______ application of knowledge in the service of the people.

Answer 2

creative

Question 3

It is the body of abstract knowledge arrived through _______ and ________ analysis

Answer 3

1. Nursing as a science
2. scientific research
3. logical

Question 4

It is a calling in which its members profess to have acquired a ________ by _____ so that they may guide, advise, or save others in that special field.

Answer 4

1. Nursing as a profession
2. special knowledge
3. training or experience

Question 5

What are the foundations of nursing?

Answer 5

1. education
2. research
3. clinical practice

Question 6

1. What foundation of knowledge?
2. _____ gives meaning to knowledge to improve practice by 3. _____, 4. ______, 5. _______ phenomena

Answer 6

1. Education
2. theory
3. describing
4. explaining
5. predicting

Question 7

Nursing theory should lead itself to 2._______
and 3. _______ should lead to knowledge that guides 3._______

Answer 7

1. Research
2. research testing
3. research testing
4. practice

Question 8

A nurse’s power is increased through? 2.
________ systematically developed methods guide 3.________ and 4. ________ in professional practice and they are more likely to be successful.

Answer 8

1. Clinical Practice
2. theoretical knowledge
3. critical thinking
4. decision making

Question 9

1. _____ is a set of statements that tentatively 2. ______, 3. _______, 4._______ relationships among concepts that have been systematically selected and organized as an abstract representation of some phenomenon.

Answer 9

1. theory
2. describe
3. explain
4. predict

Question 10

group of concepts derived from nursing models

Answer 10

Nursing Theory

Question 11

a body of knowledge that describes or explains nursing and us used to support nursing practice

Answer 11

Nursing theory

Question 12

What are the different types of theory definitions?

Answer 12

DEFINITIONS FOCUSING ON
1. Structure
2. Practice Goals
3. Tentativeness
4. research
5. developing and connecting concepts and the use of theory in practice as well as research
6. progression from conceptual framework to theory

Question 13

Logically interrelated sets of confirmed hypothesis

Answer 13

McKay (1969)
Theory based on structure

Question 14

A conceptual system or framework invented for some purpose.

Answer 14

Dickoff and James

Theory based on Practice Goals

Question 15

In practice goals, theory is defined in terms of ______

Answer 15

conceptual framework

Question 16

The source of nursing theory is not ______ but _______, and that existing conceptualizations are indeed nursing theories

Answer 16

Barnum

What is but what ought to be

Question 17

Barnum asserts that quibbling over 1.______, 2._______, 3._______ and so forth are mere splitting of hairs

Answer 17

labels of theory
2. concepts
3. framework

Question 18

A coherent set of hypothetical, conceptual, and pragmatic principles form a general frame of reference for a field of inquiry

Answer 18

Ellis
Theory based on RESEARCH

Question 19

Using theory in practice and research, and it does not restrict theory to research-verified propositions.

Answer 19

Chinn and Kramer
Definition of Theory based on Developing and connecting concepts and the use of theory in practice as well as research

Question 20

One or more relatively concrete and specific concepts that are derived from 2. ________ the propositions that narrowly describe these concepts, and the propositions that state relatively concrete and specific relations between two or more of the concepts.

Answer 20

Definitions of theory based on progression from conceptual framework to theory

Question 21

What are the roots of Nursing theory?

Answer 21

Anthropology
Psychiatry
Sociology

Question 22

study of human and human behavior

Answer 22

anthropology

Question 23

diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

Answer 23

psychiatry

Question 24

study of the functioning of human society

Answer 24

sociology

Question 25

subject matter of the discipline

Answer 25

Phenomena

Question 26

a complex mental idea or phenomenon

Answer 26

concept

Question 27

It is the major component of theory and its labels is used to identify ohenomena

Answer 27

concept

Question 28

What are the two types of concepts?

Answer 28

1. abstract 2. concrete

Question 29

are independent of time or place and they are indirectly observable

Answer 29

abstract concept ex. hope

Question 30

specific to time and place and are observable in nursing, the four metaparadigms

Answer 30

concrete

Question 31

these are statements that form the bases for defining concepts and framing propositions

Answer 31

assumptions

Question 32

assumptions are accepted as _____ and they represent _____ and _____

Answer 32

1. truths 2. values 3. beliefs

Question 33

contains the subject matter of the discipline

Answer 33

domain

Question 34

it is a branch of philosophy that focuses on reflection and investigations about the nature and foundation of knowledge

Answer 34

epistemology

Question 35

the discipline that provides the logical tools to analyze the nature of basic and fundamental categories

Answer 35

ontology

Question 36

in nursing to mean a study and critical analysis of the core of beings

Answer 36

ontology

Question 37

implementation of findings from the most recent investigations for the purpose of providing quality care

Answer 37

evidence-based practice

Question 38

worded statements, a form closely related to knowledge development

Question 39

explains using schema, symbols or visualization

Answer 39

schematic

Question 40

a set of interrelated concepts that symbolically represents and conveys a mental image of a phenomenon

Answer 40

conceptual framework/model

Question 41

a basic structure developed to organize a number of concepts that are focused on a particular set of questions

Answer 41

Theoretical framework

Question 42

Differentiate theory and framework or models

Answer 42

Theory-answers the questions Framework or models- provide direction for research projects and to REPRESENT THEORIES

Question 43

used to denote the prevailing schema or approaches within a discipline, shared by scientific community

Answer 43

paradigm

Question 44

includes the shared commitments of the community of scholars, its shared symbolic generalizations, and its exemplars, which are the shared problems and solutions in the discipline

Answer 44

Disciplinary Matrix

Question 45

most abstract level of knowledge

Answer 45

metaparadigm

Question 46

it specifies the main concepts that encompasses the subject matter and the scope of the discipline

Answer 46

metaparadigm

Question 47

presenting ideas succinctly, under the premise that explanations should be clearest when made using the fewest statements

Answer 47

Parsimony

Question 48

Principle of economy to avoid redundancy

Answer 48

parsimony

Question 49

next level of knowledge

Answer 49

philosophy

Question 50

specifies the definition of the metaparadigm concepts in each of the conceptual model of nursing

Answer 50

Philosophy

Question 51

theories that is formalized from philosophies like Nightingales’, Watson, and Benner

Answer 51

Philosophy

Question 52

allow for action, activity, development, and constant dynamic changes but most importantly, on the dialectic relationship between theory, action and critical reflection

Answer 52

praxis

Question 53

a unified body of knowledge about phenomena that iss upported by agreed-on evidence

Answer 53

science

Question 54

includes disciplinary questions and provides answers to questions that are central to the discipline in nursing, it talks about diseases

Answer 54

science

Question 55

redundancies, repetitions and circular statements are described as tautological

Answer 55

tautology

Question 56

branch of philosophy that deals with ends or consequences

Answer 56

teleology

Question 57

postulates that the purpose of any action must be understood in terms of final causes -an inquiry into the consequences of the phenomenon being studied

Answer 57

teleology

Question 58

basic generalizations that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct - a general scientific theorem or law that has numerous special applications across a wide field

Answer 58

principles

Question 59

What are the criteria in evaluating a theoretical framework?

Answer 59

1. clarity 2. simplicity 3. generality 4. empirical precision 5. derivable consequences

Question 60

IDENTIFY WHAT CRITERIA IS THE STATEMENT BELOW. 1. the scope of concepts and goals within the theory are examined 2. the major concepts, subconcepts, and their definitions are identified 3. nursing theory guides research and practice, generates new ideas, and differentiate the focus of nursing from other professions 4. the diagrams and examples may facilitate clarity and should be consistent 5. should be sufficiently comprehensive and at a level of abstraction to provide guidance but it should have as few concepts as possible with simplistic relations to aid clarity 6. the logical development should be clear and assumptions should be consistent with the theory goals 7. the broader the scope, the greater the significance of the theory 8. there should be a match between theoretical claims and empirical evidence 9. theory should reveal what knowledge nurses must, and should send time pursuing 10. there must be intersubjectivity (shared agreement)

Answer 60

1. Generality 2. Clarity 3. Derivable Consequence 4. clarity 5. simplicity 6. clarity 7. Generality 8. empirical precision 9. Derivable Consequence 10. Clarity