NURSING AS A PROFESSION, SCIENCE AND ART Flashcards
It is the “body of abstract knowledge” arrived through
scientific research and logical analysis
NURSING (AS A SCIENCE)
Is the scientific knowledge and skills in assisting individual
to achieve optimal health. It is the diagnosis and treatment
of human responses to actual or potential problem.
NURSING (AS A SCIENCE)
o An intentional higher level reasoning process
Critical thinking
o Cognitive process that uses thinking strategies
Clinical reasoning
o Application of a set of questions to a particular
situation to discard unimportant ideas
Critical analysis
o Technique to search for inconsistencies, examine
multiple points of view, separate the known from
beliefs
Socratic questioning
o Generalizations formed from a set of facts,
observations
Inductive reasoning
o Reasoning from general premise to specific
conclusion
Deductive reasoning
o Differentiating facts from opinions
Making valid inferences
