QUESTIONS & CORRECT SOLUTIONS (LATEST
UPDATE 2024)
Nursing - ANSWER * is an aspring or evolving profession
* is a professional discipline that draws much of its knowledge base from other
disciplines
i.e. psychology, sociology, physiology, and medicine
How is nursing an applied or practice science? - ANSWER it has been influenced by
several philosophical schools of thought or worldviews.
Examples of worldviews that have influenced Nursing? - ANSWER 1. Received view
2. Perceived view
3. postmodernism
Philosophy of science in nursing - ANSWER establishes the meaning of science
through nursing concepts, theories, and laws as they relate to nursing practice.
Nursing Epistemology - ANSWER (ways of knowing in nursing) focuses on 4
predominant ways.
1. empirical knowledge
2. esthetic knowledge
3. personal knowledge
4. ethical knowldge