NURS 8002 THEORY 2026 ADVANCED
NURSING THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
ASSESSMENT PAPER AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ APN Foster has to provide high quality care to her patients with
decubitus ulcers. She identified a research article by Yap, Miller,
& Kennerly (2013) that described best practices revealed in a
study involving 8 nursing homes. What was just described is an
example of what type of knowing by the APN?
Answer: Empirical knowledge
◉ Mr. Taylor is admitted to the hospital with a traumatic brain
injury and fracture left
femur resulting from a motor vehicle accident. His nurse knows
that this patient needs a cognitive assessment to determine his
capability before making decisions pertaining to his care and
preferences. This way of knowing by the nurse would most
appropriately be labeled
Answer: Somatic knowledge
,◉ A set of logically interrelated concepts, propositions, and
definitions derived from philosophical beliefs of scientific data
and from the resultant questions and/or hypotheses deduced,
tested, and verified is a definition for?
Answer: Theory
◉ Clinical reasoning involves all of the following except?
Answer: Accepts that all knowledge is constant and unchanging over
time.
◉ An organizing framework that contains concepts, theories,
assumptions and beliefs and principles affecting the way a
discipline interprets areas of concern is best labeled as?
Answer: Paradigm
◉ Ms. Faber is at Morton's restaurant eating a thick steak and
suddenly starts choking. Based on your observation and
knowledge, you decide to perform the Heimlich maneuver. This
process that just occurred is most appropriate described as?
Answer: Clinical reasoning
◉ In the process of theory development, the aspect in which
, structure and contextualization of content occurs is labeled
Answer: theory construction
◉ Going from general reasoning and applying it to specific
situations is called.
Example: In class, you learned that proper positioning could help
with pain reduction so if you reposition all patients for comfort it
should reduce their pain if done correctly.
Answer: Deductive reasoning
◉ A type of theory that is specific and has a limited number of
concepts (i.e., Reed's Theory of Self Transcendence).
Answer: middle
◉ Pain measured on a scale of zero=no pain and 10=high pain is an
example of?
Answer: Operational definition
◉ A graphic or symbolic representation of a phenomena is called
Answer: model
◉ A theory construct is usually considered to be
NURSING THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
ASSESSMENT PAPER AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ APN Foster has to provide high quality care to her patients with
decubitus ulcers. She identified a research article by Yap, Miller,
& Kennerly (2013) that described best practices revealed in a
study involving 8 nursing homes. What was just described is an
example of what type of knowing by the APN?
Answer: Empirical knowledge
◉ Mr. Taylor is admitted to the hospital with a traumatic brain
injury and fracture left
femur resulting from a motor vehicle accident. His nurse knows
that this patient needs a cognitive assessment to determine his
capability before making decisions pertaining to his care and
preferences. This way of knowing by the nurse would most
appropriately be labeled
Answer: Somatic knowledge
,◉ A set of logically interrelated concepts, propositions, and
definitions derived from philosophical beliefs of scientific data
and from the resultant questions and/or hypotheses deduced,
tested, and verified is a definition for?
Answer: Theory
◉ Clinical reasoning involves all of the following except?
Answer: Accepts that all knowledge is constant and unchanging over
time.
◉ An organizing framework that contains concepts, theories,
assumptions and beliefs and principles affecting the way a
discipline interprets areas of concern is best labeled as?
Answer: Paradigm
◉ Ms. Faber is at Morton's restaurant eating a thick steak and
suddenly starts choking. Based on your observation and
knowledge, you decide to perform the Heimlich maneuver. This
process that just occurred is most appropriate described as?
Answer: Clinical reasoning
◉ In the process of theory development, the aspect in which
, structure and contextualization of content occurs is labeled
Answer: theory construction
◉ Going from general reasoning and applying it to specific
situations is called.
Example: In class, you learned that proper positioning could help
with pain reduction so if you reposition all patients for comfort it
should reduce their pain if done correctly.
Answer: Deductive reasoning
◉ A type of theory that is specific and has a limited number of
concepts (i.e., Reed's Theory of Self Transcendence).
Answer: middle
◉ Pain measured on a scale of zero=no pain and 10=high pain is an
example of?
Answer: Operational definition
◉ A graphic or symbolic representation of a phenomena is called
Answer: model
◉ A theory construct is usually considered to be
