NURS 8002 STUDY EXAMS GUIDE ALL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Predictive theories - ✔✔Describe the relationship btwn concepts
Generated & tested by experimental research involving manipulation of phenomenon
and/or concepts and how they affect 1 another
✔✔Prescriptive theories - ✔✔Prescribe activities necessary to reach defined goal
3 components
1. Specified goals/outcomes
2. explicit activities to achieve goals
3. Survey list that articulates conceptual basis of theory
✔✔Empirics - ✔✔Scientific knowledge coming from observation, testing and replication
Ex: Shows us how to accurately take BPs
✔✔Personal knowledge - ✔✔Knowledge gained from thought alone
ex: In order to cook something you need to turn on the heat
✔✔Esthetic Knowledge - ✔✔Incorporates art, creativity and values
Ex: Looking at art, some think its beautiful and some think its ugly. Its your OWN
perspective
, ✔✔Moral/Ethical Knowledge - ✔✔What is right vs wrong
Ex: Following guidelines for research in the US is specific to the US, but may be
different in other countries
✔✔Intuitive knowledge - ✔✔Feelings and hunches- not guessing but relies on
unconscious patter recognition and experience.
Ex: when you take care of the same pt, you understand their habits and what to expect
✔✔Somatic knowledge - ✔✔Knowing the body in relation to physical movement-
balance to perform a task
Ex: when youre pregnant, your center of gravity is off and youre more likely to fall
✔✔Theory components - ✔✔Set of logically interrelated concepts, statements, &
definitions. Very well defined
✔✔Model components - ✔✔Graphic/symbolic presentations of phenomena that
objectify and present certain perspectives or points of view about nature, function or
both
Ex: Model of brain
✔✔Conceptual frame work - ✔✔Set of interrelated concepts that symbolically represent
and convey a mental image of a phenomenon
Ex: Maslows
✔✔Phenomenon - ✔✔Aspect of reality, subject matter that is primary concern of
discipline
Ex: pain management
✔✔Assumptions - ✔✔Beliefs about phenomena we Accept as true to accept a theory
Ex: Assume a pt is A&O to understand diabetic training, would not work if they are
confused
✔✔Concept - ✔✔Elements of components of a phenomenon
Building blocks of theories and propositions
Ex: Pain, depression, well being, BP stress
✔✔Conceptual - ✔✔Word definition
✔✔Operational - ✔✔How it is measured
Ex: How do you measure pain? Stress? Depressiong?
✔✔Constructs - ✔✔Complex type of concept
Usually constructed by theorist to fit a pupose
Ex: Maslows hierarchy of needs
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Predictive theories - ✔✔Describe the relationship btwn concepts
Generated & tested by experimental research involving manipulation of phenomenon
and/or concepts and how they affect 1 another
✔✔Prescriptive theories - ✔✔Prescribe activities necessary to reach defined goal
3 components
1. Specified goals/outcomes
2. explicit activities to achieve goals
3. Survey list that articulates conceptual basis of theory
✔✔Empirics - ✔✔Scientific knowledge coming from observation, testing and replication
Ex: Shows us how to accurately take BPs
✔✔Personal knowledge - ✔✔Knowledge gained from thought alone
ex: In order to cook something you need to turn on the heat
✔✔Esthetic Knowledge - ✔✔Incorporates art, creativity and values
Ex: Looking at art, some think its beautiful and some think its ugly. Its your OWN
perspective
, ✔✔Moral/Ethical Knowledge - ✔✔What is right vs wrong
Ex: Following guidelines for research in the US is specific to the US, but may be
different in other countries
✔✔Intuitive knowledge - ✔✔Feelings and hunches- not guessing but relies on
unconscious patter recognition and experience.
Ex: when you take care of the same pt, you understand their habits and what to expect
✔✔Somatic knowledge - ✔✔Knowing the body in relation to physical movement-
balance to perform a task
Ex: when youre pregnant, your center of gravity is off and youre more likely to fall
✔✔Theory components - ✔✔Set of logically interrelated concepts, statements, &
definitions. Very well defined
✔✔Model components - ✔✔Graphic/symbolic presentations of phenomena that
objectify and present certain perspectives or points of view about nature, function or
both
Ex: Model of brain
✔✔Conceptual frame work - ✔✔Set of interrelated concepts that symbolically represent
and convey a mental image of a phenomenon
Ex: Maslows
✔✔Phenomenon - ✔✔Aspect of reality, subject matter that is primary concern of
discipline
Ex: pain management
✔✔Assumptions - ✔✔Beliefs about phenomena we Accept as true to accept a theory
Ex: Assume a pt is A&O to understand diabetic training, would not work if they are
confused
✔✔Concept - ✔✔Elements of components of a phenomenon
Building blocks of theories and propositions
Ex: Pain, depression, well being, BP stress
✔✔Conceptual - ✔✔Word definition
✔✔Operational - ✔✔How it is measured
Ex: How do you measure pain? Stress? Depressiong?
✔✔Constructs - ✔✔Complex type of concept
Usually constructed by theorist to fit a pupose
Ex: Maslows hierarchy of needs
