Which of the three different perspectives or paradigms of the way to develop nursing knowledge involves the description of phenomena viewed as having multiple, interrelated parts?
A) Particulate-deterministic perspective
B) Interactiveintegrative perspective
C) Unitarytransformative perspective
D) Unitary-deterministic perspective
Question 2A staff nurse has been asked to present information on theoretical frameworks to a group of nursing students who are attending the college nearby. Which of the following characteristics would the nurse use in her description of theoretical frameworks?
A) Narrower than a theory
B) More local than global
C) Not validated in scientific testing
D) Simple rather than complex
Question 3A middle-range theory has been suggested to be used by a graduate student's advisor on his thesis project. What is the best reason to use a middle-range theory?
A) It helps to provide direction for nurses to focus on research.
B) It serves as theoretical frameworks for nursing research and practice.
C) It serves as a broad characterization of nursing practice and is abstract.
D) It helps to understand how concepts are related to one another.
Question 4A nursing student attends a lecture on the central concepts of nursing. A concept, she is told, is a highly abstract and general word or phrase that summarizes the essential characteristics or properties of a phenomenon.
Which answer represents the four major concepts of nursing central to work of the profession?
A) Human being, environment, health, and nursing
B) Human being, theory, health, and environment
C) Theory, health, environment, and nursing
D) Environment, health, theory, and nursing
Question 5A nurse educator watches a student nurse walk across the stage to receive her diploma. After the program, the nurse educator discusses with the student where she will be working.
She states that she is not sure yet, but she knows she does not wish to work in the obstetrical area. The student nurse is using which type of knowledge to make this decision?
A) Personal knowledge
B) Aesthetic knowledge
C) Empirical knowledge
D) Ethical knowledge
Question 6A nurse testifies in court that standards of practice drive the nursing profession and that a client's care was substandard. What type of knowledge is the nurse using for her testimony?
A) Personal knowledge
B) Aesthetic knowledge
C) Empirical knowledge
D) Ethical knowledge
Question 7Which philosophical approach to the development of knowledge is highlighted by the effectiveness of the theory for solving problems and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts?
A) Logical empiricism
B) Historicism
C) Postmodernism
D) Rationalism
Question 8Which philosophical approach to the development of knowledge is highlighted by a concern for context rather than universality, specificity rather than generalization, uniqueness rather than sameness, and relativism rather than absolutism?
A) Logical empiricism
B) Historicism
C) Postmodernism
D) Rationalism
Question 9A nurse enters a client's room and is concerned about the client's statement, I feel funny but I can't explain why. The nurse assesses the client but cannot determine an actual scientific problem.
However, the nurse calls the resident who comes to see the client and while being examined the client goes into cardiac arrest. The nurse utilized which type of knowledge in this situation?
A) Personal knowledge
B) Aesthetic knowledge
C) Empirical knowledge
D) Ethical knowledge
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