NURS 1700 - Midterm Review Questions With Complete
Solutions
How do we gain nursing knowledge? Correct Answers
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Through nursing episdemology and ontology.
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What is nursing episdemology? Correct Answers The study of
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knowledge shared among the members of the discipline, the
patterns of knowing and knowledge that develop from them, and
the criteria for accepting knowledge claims.
What is nursing ontology? Correct Answers The nature of
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nursing, person, environment, health
What are the ways of knowing? Correct Answers 1. Empirical
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knowing - systematically organized into laws/theories for the
purpose of describing/explaining/predicting phenomenon of
special concern to the discipline of nursing.
2. Ethical knowing - focused on our nursing obligations, apply
standards/values to decide what is morally right. This
application will not eliminate the necessity for moral choices.
3. Personal knowing - knowledge of ourselves and what we have
seen/experienced; comes via experience and self-reflection.
4. Aesthetical knowing - "art of nursing" involved the creation
of a singular subjective expression of imagined possibilities not
so easily put into words.
What is an example of empirical knowledge? Correct Answers
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The long-term care best practices toolkit.
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, What is an example of ethical knowledge? Correct Answers A
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nurse considering the patients right to refuse treatment and
possibly die, vs her obligation to "do no harm"
What is an example of personal knowing? Correct Answers
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Encountering a substance-using pregnant woman and reflecting
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on your bias of pregnant women using drugs.
What is an example of aesthetic knowing? Correct Answers
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Empathy and compassion.
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What are the 3 perspectives of nursing practice? Correct HH
Answers empirical, phenomenological, and critical.
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What is the empirical perspective? Correct Answers one reality
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excists, cause/effect, and objective.
What is the phenomenological perspective? Correct Answers
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focus is on the lived experience of each person, uses multiple
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ways of knowing, and is subjective.
What is the critical perspective? Correct Answers considers the
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social, political, and economical side.
What are the 4 nursing metaparadigms? Correct Answers 1.
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Person
2. Environment
3. Health
4. Nursing
Solutions
How do we gain nursing knowledge? Correct Answers
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Through nursing episdemology and ontology.
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What is nursing episdemology? Correct Answers The study of
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knowledge shared among the members of the discipline, the
patterns of knowing and knowledge that develop from them, and
the criteria for accepting knowledge claims.
What is nursing ontology? Correct Answers The nature of
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nursing, person, environment, health
What are the ways of knowing? Correct Answers 1. Empirical
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knowing - systematically organized into laws/theories for the
purpose of describing/explaining/predicting phenomenon of
special concern to the discipline of nursing.
2. Ethical knowing - focused on our nursing obligations, apply
standards/values to decide what is morally right. This
application will not eliminate the necessity for moral choices.
3. Personal knowing - knowledge of ourselves and what we have
seen/experienced; comes via experience and self-reflection.
4. Aesthetical knowing - "art of nursing" involved the creation
of a singular subjective expression of imagined possibilities not
so easily put into words.
What is an example of empirical knowledge? Correct Answers
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The long-term care best practices toolkit.
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, What is an example of ethical knowledge? Correct Answers A
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nurse considering the patients right to refuse treatment and
possibly die, vs her obligation to "do no harm"
What is an example of personal knowing? Correct Answers
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Encountering a substance-using pregnant woman and reflecting
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on your bias of pregnant women using drugs.
What is an example of aesthetic knowing? Correct Answers
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Empathy and compassion.
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What are the 3 perspectives of nursing practice? Correct HH
Answers empirical, phenomenological, and critical.
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What is the empirical perspective? Correct Answers one reality
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excists, cause/effect, and objective.
What is the phenomenological perspective? Correct Answers
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focus is on the lived experience of each person, uses multiple
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ways of knowing, and is subjective.
What is the critical perspective? Correct Answers considers the
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social, political, and economical side.
What are the 4 nursing metaparadigms? Correct Answers 1.
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Person
2. Environment
3. Health
4. Nursing
