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NURS 170 FINAL Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Solved | Latest Update
Nursing as a discipline - ✔✔Specialized knowledge such as research,
theories, and philosophical foundations which are set in place to help guide
the development and the journey of the profession.
Nursing as a practice - ✔✔The application of knowledge used in a work-like
setting to service people and ensure good nursing.
Epistemology - ✔✔Branch of philosophy concerned with the sources of
knowledge and truth and the methods being used to acquire it. Or the ways
in which knowledge is developed.
Borrowed Knowledge - ✔✔Knowledge developed by other disciplines and
adapted in the discipline of nursing, for example Anatomy or Philosophy.
Received view - ✔✔A worldview that uses observations and measurement
to come to a quantitative, objective conclusion resulting in only one truth.
Perceived view - ✔✔A worldview that takes in more qualitative experiences
and perceptions from the subjective client report which can result in many
truths.
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Four Meta-paradigms of Nursing - ✔✔Person, Nursing, Environment,
Health
paradigm - ✔✔a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including
theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitutes
legitimate contributions to a field.
Metaparadigm - ✔✔refers to the primary or central phenomena that are of
interest to a particular discipline
Metaparadigm- Person - ✔✔Metaparadigm of nursing that looks at the
Individual, family or community (Biopsychosocial being) which is receiving
holistic care from the nurse
Metaparadigm- Nursing - ✔✔Metaparadigm of nursing that focuses on the
actions taken on behalf or with the client in the pursuit of health
Metaparadigm- Health - ✔✔metaparadigm of nursing which looks at The
client's wellness/illness which is relative to the goal being to help the client
reach their highest 'health potential'
Metaparadigm: Environment - ✔✔metaparadigm of nursing which has both
a social aspect looking at family, relationships, and communities. And a
physical aspect looking at external factors like cleanliness and temperature
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as well as internal factorials like food and medicine which has been
ingested.
Aim of Nursing - ✔✔Health Promotion, Illness prevention, Restore health,
Facilitate coping with death or disability.
empirical knowledge - ✔✔The pattern of knowing based on science and
organized into general laws and theories which can help us explain or
predict phenomena. What is it and how does it work?
aesthetic knowledge - ✔✔The pattern of knowing associated with the art of
nursing and can only be developed by being immersed within the nurse-
client relationship. What does it mean and how/why is it significant?
Ethical knowledge - ✔✔The pattern of knowing that focuses on what is right
or wrong and the obligations, commitments, and responsibilities we as
nurses have to act upon, nurses also function within their own moral code
based on service to people and respect for human life. Is it right and is it
responsible?
Personal Knowledge - ✔✔The pattern of knowing focused on
understanding one's self and why you may have certain beliefs, values or
prejudices and what you need to do to not let them impact your care. Do I
know what I do and do I know what I know?
NURS 170 FINAL Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Solved | Latest Update
Nursing as a discipline - ✔✔Specialized knowledge such as research,
theories, and philosophical foundations which are set in place to help guide
the development and the journey of the profession.
Nursing as a practice - ✔✔The application of knowledge used in a work-like
setting to service people and ensure good nursing.
Epistemology - ✔✔Branch of philosophy concerned with the sources of
knowledge and truth and the methods being used to acquire it. Or the ways
in which knowledge is developed.
Borrowed Knowledge - ✔✔Knowledge developed by other disciplines and
adapted in the discipline of nursing, for example Anatomy or Philosophy.
Received view - ✔✔A worldview that uses observations and measurement
to come to a quantitative, objective conclusion resulting in only one truth.
Perceived view - ✔✔A worldview that takes in more qualitative experiences
and perceptions from the subjective client report which can result in many
truths.
,©NINJANERD 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
Four Meta-paradigms of Nursing - ✔✔Person, Nursing, Environment,
Health
paradigm - ✔✔a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including
theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitutes
legitimate contributions to a field.
Metaparadigm - ✔✔refers to the primary or central phenomena that are of
interest to a particular discipline
Metaparadigm- Person - ✔✔Metaparadigm of nursing that looks at the
Individual, family or community (Biopsychosocial being) which is receiving
holistic care from the nurse
Metaparadigm- Nursing - ✔✔Metaparadigm of nursing that focuses on the
actions taken on behalf or with the client in the pursuit of health
Metaparadigm- Health - ✔✔metaparadigm of nursing which looks at The
client's wellness/illness which is relative to the goal being to help the client
reach their highest 'health potential'
Metaparadigm: Environment - ✔✔metaparadigm of nursing which has both
a social aspect looking at family, relationships, and communities. And a
physical aspect looking at external factors like cleanliness and temperature
, ©NINJANERD 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
as well as internal factorials like food and medicine which has been
ingested.
Aim of Nursing - ✔✔Health Promotion, Illness prevention, Restore health,
Facilitate coping with death or disability.
empirical knowledge - ✔✔The pattern of knowing based on science and
organized into general laws and theories which can help us explain or
predict phenomena. What is it and how does it work?
aesthetic knowledge - ✔✔The pattern of knowing associated with the art of
nursing and can only be developed by being immersed within the nurse-
client relationship. What does it mean and how/why is it significant?
Ethical knowledge - ✔✔The pattern of knowing that focuses on what is right
or wrong and the obligations, commitments, and responsibilities we as
nurses have to act upon, nurses also function within their own moral code
based on service to people and respect for human life. Is it right and is it
responsible?
Personal Knowledge - ✔✔The pattern of knowing focused on
understanding one's self and why you may have certain beliefs, values or
prejudices and what you need to do to not let them impact your care. Do I
know what I do and do I know what I know?
