Quiz #1

Question 1

when did nursing science begin to develop its own body of knowledge?

Answer 1

After WW2. Historically nursing often applied the knowledge of other disciplines which tended to stall the development of the unique discipline

Question 2

whats the evolution of the discipline?

Answer 2

Nursing knowledge became the key focus of exploration- looking into how we know what we know and what nursing is

Question 3

what did the exploration of nursing knowledge include?

Answer 3

• What is the focus and scope of nursing?
• How is nursing different than other healthcare professions?
• What is the appropriate disciplinary knowledge for professional nursing practice?

Question 4

whats nursing as a profession?

Answer 4

• provide service to humankind
• profession is the art of nursing
• specialized education
• everything is weaved together onto the patients and they benefit from it.

Question 5

whats nursing as a discipline?

Answer 5

• branch of knowledge
• science of nursing
• discipline expands the knowledge about human experiences
• includes the frameworks, the theories

Question 6

Define inquiry

Answer 6

An act of asking for information

Question 7

define positivist research?

Answer 7

The study of society that relies specifically on scientific evidence (experiments and statistics) to reveal a true nature of how society operates

Question 8

define metacognition

Answer 8

Awareness and understanding of one’s own thought processes

Question 9

define informatics

Answer 9

The study of the structure, behaviour, and interactions of natural and engineered computational systems

Question 10

define Research methodology

Answer 10

It is the specific procedures or techniques used to identify, select, process, and analyze information about a topic.

Question 11

what are the three levels of critical thinking?

Answer 11

basic, complex, and commitment

Question 12

what is Basic Critical Thinking?

Answer 12

thinking is concrete on a set of rules and principles

Question 13

what is complex critical thinking?

Answer 13

• begin to analyze and examine choices more independently

- willing to consider other options, including patient preferences regarding care, in addition to routine procedures

Question 14

what is commitment critical thinking?

Answer 14

-anticipate the need to make choices without assistance from other professionals (you choose an action or belief and stand by your choice)

Question 15

what are the five components of critical thinking?

Answer 15

knowledge base, experience, competencies, attitudes and standards

Question 16

describe knowledge base

Answer 16

-nurses must possess a sound knowledge base to think critically, formulate accurate clinical judgements and decisions, and improve clinical practice

Question 17

describe experience

Answer 17

• critical thinking skills go beyond the basic level
• also learn to seek new knowledge as needed, act quickly when events change, and make quality decisions that promote patient’s health/well-being.

Question 18

describe general critical thinking competencies and what are examples?

Answer 18

• cognitive processes that a nurse uses to make judgements about the clinical care of patients
  ex. scientific method, problem solving, and decision making

Question 19

what do specific critical thinking competencies include?

Answer 19

-include diagnostic reasoning, clinical inference, and clinical decision making

Question 20

what is diagnostic reasoning?

Answer 20

-process of determining a patient’s health status after you make a physical and behavioural observations and also after you assign meaning to the behaviours, physical signs, and symptoms

Question 21

what is clinical reasoning?

Answer 21

describes the cognitive process of thinking about patient issues, making inferences, and deciding on the actions to be implemented in a particular situation

Question 22

describe attitudes?

Answer 22

-attitudes determine how a successful critical thinker approaches a problem or a situation that necessitates decision making

Question 23

describe the two types of standards: intellectual and professional

Answer 23

• intellectual standard= a guideline or principle for rational thought
• professional standard= ethical criteria for nursing judgements, evidence informed criteria for evaluation, and criteria for professional responsibility.

Question 24

what are clinical judgments influenced by?

Answer 24

influenced by the context in which the situation occurs and the culture of the nursing care unit

Question 25

Boyer (1990)- what are the four areas that are critical to academic work?

Answer 25

1. Discovery- where new knowledge is generated
2. Teaching- where the teacher creatively builds bridges between his or her own understanding and the students’ learning
3. Application- where the emphasis is on the use of new knowledge in solving society’s problems
4. Integration- where new relationships among disciplines are discovered

Question 26

define scholarship in nursing?

Answer 26

activities that systematically advance the teaching, research, and practice of nursing