AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Nursing research that is theory generating involves: - ✔✔The application of a
qualitative approach
✔✔The Theory of Chronic Sorrow was developed using which of the
following: - ✔✔Concept analysis, literature review, and qualitative studies
✔✔Empirics - ✔✔Scientific knowledge coming from observation, testing and replication
✔✔Personal knowledge - ✔✔Knowledge gained from thought alone
✔✔Esthetic knowledge - ✔✔harmony, beauty, expression - incorporates art, creativity,
values
✔✔Moral or ethical knowledge - ✔✔what is right versus wrong - values, social and
cultural norms
✔✔Initiative knowledge - ✔✔Feelings and hunches, not guessing but relies on
unconscious pattern recognition and experience
, ✔✔Somatic knowledge - ✔✔knowing the body in relation to physical movement -
balance to perform a task
✔✔Theory - ✔✔Refers to a set of logical interrelated concepts,
statements, propositions, and definitions, which
have been derived from philosophical beliefs of
scientific data and from which questions and
hypotheses can be deduced, tested and
verified. Theory attempts to account for or
characterize some phenomenon (Chin &
Kramer, 2008).
✔✔King's Theory of Goal
Attainment assumptions - ✔✔• Individuals are social beings, sentiment, rational and
• Are controlling, purposeful, action and time oriented in
behavior (King, 1995)
✔✔Kings theory of goal attainment concepts - ✔✔• Nursing, health, individuals,
environment, perception,
communication, interaction, transaction, stress
✔✔King's Theory of Goal
Attainment 2
positions/Relationship Statements - ✔✔Nurse and client perceptions, judgments, and
ictions if congruent, lead to goal directed
ransactions.
nurse and client make transactions, goals will
e attained
role conflict is experienced by nurse or client
r both, stress in nurse-client interactions will
ccur.
• Different types according to scope
• Disciplines tend to take ownership of
theories considered unique to them
• Nursing and non-nursing theories used to
guide our practice
• May have shared theory
✔✔Paradigm - ✔✔Organizing framework that contains
concepts, theories, assumptions, beliefs,
values, principles and affects the way a
discipline interprets the subject matter the
phenomena of concern or our reality
✔✔Research - ✔✔• Used to investigate speculative theory, refine and test, the