TFN INDEPENDENT STUDY 1

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Is specific to academe and refers to a branch of education, a department of learning or a domain of knowledge

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Discipline

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Refers to a specialized field of a practice, founded upon the theoretical structure of the science or knowledge of that discipline and accompanying practice abilities

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Profession

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In western Philosophy, the view that regards REASON as the chief source and test of knowledge

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Rationalism

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“Posteriori” (from the latter)

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Empiricism

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All knowledge obtained through SENSES not inherited

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Empiricism

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“Priori” (from the former)

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Rationalism

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It emphasizes the importance of a priori reasoning as the appropriate methos for advancing knowledge.

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Rationalism

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Is the theory that human knowledge comes predominantly from experiences gathered through five senses.

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Empiricism

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Knowledge based on reasoning

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Rationalism

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Uses inductive reasoning

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Empiricism

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Source of knowledge is experience

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Empiricism

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Do not believe in intuition

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Empiricism

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Genuine knowledge is certain

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Rationalism

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The first of the modern rationalists “I think, therefore I am”

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Rene Descartes

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Scientific approach was discovered thorugh generalizing observed facts (Inductive method)

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Francis Bacon

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All knowledge, he held, comes from sensation or from reflection

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John Locke

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Emerged as the dominant view of modern science

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Positivism

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Two approaches that would produce scientific knowledge

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Deductive and Inductive

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Is a philosophical movement originating in the 20th century.

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Phenomenology

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Is an attitude towards life and reality that evolves from each nurse’s beliefs

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Philosophy

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Is defined as a set of concepts, and statements that integrate the concepts into a meaningful configuration

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Conceptual models

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Conceptual models of nursing

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Neuman systems model
Orem self-care framework
Roper-Logan-tierney model of nursing
Roy adaption model

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Examples of conceptual models

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Theory of disease causation (Agent, host, environment)
Communication model
Maslow’s Heirarchy needs

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Is patterns or models used to show a clear relationship among the existing theoretical works in nursing

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Nursing paradigm

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The most general statement of a discipline and functions as a framework in which the more restricted structures of conceptual models develop

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Metaparadigm

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Is a creative and rigorous structuring of ideas that projects a tentative, purposeful and systematic view of phenomena

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Conceptual models

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It is an abstract statement formulated to predict, explain or describe the relationships among concepts or events.

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Conceptual models

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Also known as “factor isolating theories”

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Descriptive

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Also known as “situation relating theories”

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Predictive

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They identify and describe major concepts of phenomena

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Descriptive

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also known as “Factor relating theories”

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Explanatory

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To examine how properties relate and thus affect the discipline

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Explanatory

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To calculate relationships between properties and how they occur

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Predictive

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Also known as “Situation producing theories”

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Prescriptive

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This kind of theory is commonly used in testing new nursing interventions.

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Prescriptive