ECPI: NUR164: CHAPTER 2: THEORY,
RESEARCH, & EVIDENCE-BASED
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Nursing Social Policy Statement of Issues Nurses Address: - CORRECT 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: - CORRECT ANSWER - •Traditional
•Authoritative
•Scientific
Traditional Source Of Knowledge: - CORRECT ANSWER - Passed down from generation
to generation
, Authoritative Source Of Knowledge: - CORRECT ANSWER - Comes from an expert,
accepted as truth based on person's perceived expertise
Scientific Source Of Knowledge: - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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: - CORRECT ANSWER - Knowledge in and of
nursing
Types of Nursing Knowledge: Philosophy: - CORRECT ANSWER - Study of wisdom,
fundamental knowledge, and processes used to construct life
Types of Nursing Knowledge: Process: - CORRECT ANSWER - Conceptual frameworks
and theories
Influences On Nursing Knowledge: Historical Influence: - CORRECT 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
RESEARCH, & EVIDENCE-BASED
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Nursing Social Policy Statement of Issues Nurses Address: - CORRECT 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: - CORRECT ANSWER - •Traditional
•Authoritative
•Scientific
Traditional Source Of Knowledge: - CORRECT ANSWER - Passed down from generation
to generation
, Authoritative Source Of Knowledge: - CORRECT ANSWER - Comes from an expert,
accepted as truth based on person's perceived expertise
Scientific Source Of Knowledge: - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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: - CORRECT ANSWER - Knowledge in and of
nursing
Types of Nursing Knowledge: Philosophy: - CORRECT ANSWER - Study of wisdom,
fundamental knowledge, and processes used to construct life
Types of Nursing Knowledge: Process: - CORRECT ANSWER - Conceptual frameworks
and theories
Influences On Nursing Knowledge: Historical Influence: - CORRECT 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
