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ECPI: NUR164: CHAPTER 2: THEORY, RESEARCH, & EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ECPI: NUR164: CHAPTER 2: THEORY, RESEARCH, & EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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ECPI: NUR164: CHAPTER 2: THEORY,RESEARCH, & EVIDENCE-BASED
PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Nursing Social Policy Statement of Issues Nurses Address: - Answer-•Promotion of
health and wellness
•Promotion of safety and quality of care
•Care, self-care processes, and care coordination
•Physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort, discomfort, and pain
•Adaptation to physiologic and pathophysiologic processes
•Emotions related to the experience of birth, growth and development, health, illness,
disease, and death
•Meanings ascribed to health, illness, and other concepts
•Linguistic and cultural sensitivity
•Health literacy
•Decision making and the ability to make choices
•Relationships, role performance, and change processes within relationships
•Social policies and their effects on health
•Health care systems and their relationships to access, cost, and quality of health care
•The environment and the prevention of disease and injury
Sources Of Knowledge: - Answer-•Traditional
•Authoritative
•Scientific
Traditional Source Of Knowledge: - Answer-Passed down from generation to generation
Authoritative Source Of Knowledge: - Answer-Comes from an expert, accepted as truth
based on person's perceived expertise
Scientific Source Of Knowledge: - Answer-Obtained through the scientific method
(research)
Traditional and authoritative knowledge are practical to implement, but are often based
on subjective data, limiting their usefulness in a wide variety of settings.
A. True
B. False - Answer-A. True
Traditional and authoritative knowledge are practical to implement but are often based
on subjective data, limiting their usefulness in a wide variety of settings.
, Types of Nursing Knowledge: Science: - Answer-Knowledge in and of nursing
Types of Nursing Knowledge: Philosophy: - Answer-Study of wisdom, fundamental
knowledge, and processes used to construct life
Types of Nursing Knowledge: Process: - Answer-Conceptual frameworks and theories
Influences On Nursing Knowledge: Historical Influence: - Answer-Florence Nightingale,
societal changes
Nightingale influenced nursing knowledge and practice by demonstrating efficient and
knowledgeable nursing care, defining nursing practice as separate and distinct from
medical practice, and differentiating between health nursing and illness nursing
Influences On Nursing Knowledge: Societal Influences: - Answer-Schools of nursing
Most early schools of nursing established in the United States were adapted from
Nightingale's model. There was no planned educational curriculum; instead, knowledge
was acquired from lectures by physicians and through practical experience by caring for
sick people in hospitals
Which of the following is a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring
about a desired result?
A. Process
B. Science
C. Philosophy
D. Theory - Answer-A. Process
A process is a series of actions, changes, or functions to bring about a desired result
taking systematic steps. A science implies a body of knowledge. A philosophy is the
study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the processes used to develop a
perception of life. A theory is composed of a group of concepts that describe a pattern
of reality.
Theory: - Answer-Group of concepts that describe a pattern of reality
-Can be tested, changed, or used to guide research
Concept: - Answer-Abstract impressions organized into symbols of reality
-Conceptual framework or model
Nursing Theory: - Answer-is developed to describe nursing.
Nursing theory differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities in that it serves
the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of
nursing care practices.
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