NURS 8002 UPDATED EXAMS TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Correct referencing without plagiarism - ✔✔Roy and Andrews (1999) state that
"evaluation invloves determining the effectiveness of nursing interv in relation to.." (p.
251).
Roy,C & Andrews, H (1999). Italits title. Appleton & Lange
✔✔1st nursing theorist - ✔✔Florence Nightingale
✔✔Silent Knowledge - ✔✔Blind obedience to medical authority
✔✔Received knowledge (40-50s) - ✔✔Learning through listening to others
✔✔Subjective knowledge (50-60s) - ✔✔Direct observation, authority was internalized to
foster a new sense of self
✔✔Procedural Knowledge (70s) - ✔✔Nursing viewed self as scientific discipline
✔✔Constructed Knowledge - ✔✔Developing theories to guide practice
Increased # of middle range and practice theories
, ✔✔Integrated knowledge - ✔✔Assimilation and application of evidence from nursing
and emphasis nursing science with integration into practice and translational knowledge
✔✔Patricia BENNER model of skill acquisition in nursing - ✔✔Practice develops
through experiential learning and thru transmitting that learning to practice setting
✔✔Novice nurse - ✔✔have limited ability to predict what might happen in a specific pt
situation
Like if there is a change in mental status or cardiac changes, dont know what to do after
✔✔Competent nurse - ✔✔Recognize patterns and nature of clinical situations more
quickly and accurately than advanced beginners
✔✔Benner Concepts - ✔✔Competence, skill acquisitions, experience, clinical and
practical knowledge
✔✔Example of Benner - ✔✔When caring for acutely ill pts with CHF, does the use of
high fidelity stimulation with didactic class instruction improve the knowledge and
performance of novice nurses compared to nurses who do not receive the HFD
Knowledge: Known s/s of detoriation
Performance: taking action when pt is deteriorating
✔✔Epistemology - ✔✔Study of knowledge
What do we know?
What is the extent of our knowledge?
How do we decide whether we know?
What are the criteria for knowledge?
✔✔Paradigm - ✔✔Organizing framework that contains concepts, theories, assumptions,
beliefs, values and principles
Affects the way a discipline interprets the subject matter, phenomena of concern, or our
reality.
✔✔Nursing paradigm - ✔✔Look at person, health, nursing, environment
✔✔Borrowed/ shared theory - ✔✔Theory developed in another discipline that is not
adapted to the worldview/practice of nursing
✔✔Pros of borrowed theory - ✔✔Apply to realm of nursing actions
Knowledge belongs to scientific community & society
✔✔Cons of borrowed theory - ✔✔Only nsg theories guide actions of discipline
They are tainted when applying to nsg
Must clarify context then define it for nsg perspective
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Correct referencing without plagiarism - ✔✔Roy and Andrews (1999) state that
"evaluation invloves determining the effectiveness of nursing interv in relation to.." (p.
251).
Roy,C & Andrews, H (1999). Italits title. Appleton & Lange
✔✔1st nursing theorist - ✔✔Florence Nightingale
✔✔Silent Knowledge - ✔✔Blind obedience to medical authority
✔✔Received knowledge (40-50s) - ✔✔Learning through listening to others
✔✔Subjective knowledge (50-60s) - ✔✔Direct observation, authority was internalized to
foster a new sense of self
✔✔Procedural Knowledge (70s) - ✔✔Nursing viewed self as scientific discipline
✔✔Constructed Knowledge - ✔✔Developing theories to guide practice
Increased # of middle range and practice theories
, ✔✔Integrated knowledge - ✔✔Assimilation and application of evidence from nursing
and emphasis nursing science with integration into practice and translational knowledge
✔✔Patricia BENNER model of skill acquisition in nursing - ✔✔Practice develops
through experiential learning and thru transmitting that learning to practice setting
✔✔Novice nurse - ✔✔have limited ability to predict what might happen in a specific pt
situation
Like if there is a change in mental status or cardiac changes, dont know what to do after
✔✔Competent nurse - ✔✔Recognize patterns and nature of clinical situations more
quickly and accurately than advanced beginners
✔✔Benner Concepts - ✔✔Competence, skill acquisitions, experience, clinical and
practical knowledge
✔✔Example of Benner - ✔✔When caring for acutely ill pts with CHF, does the use of
high fidelity stimulation with didactic class instruction improve the knowledge and
performance of novice nurses compared to nurses who do not receive the HFD
Knowledge: Known s/s of detoriation
Performance: taking action when pt is deteriorating
✔✔Epistemology - ✔✔Study of knowledge
What do we know?
What is the extent of our knowledge?
How do we decide whether we know?
What are the criteria for knowledge?
✔✔Paradigm - ✔✔Organizing framework that contains concepts, theories, assumptions,
beliefs, values and principles
Affects the way a discipline interprets the subject matter, phenomena of concern, or our
reality.
✔✔Nursing paradigm - ✔✔Look at person, health, nursing, environment
✔✔Borrowed/ shared theory - ✔✔Theory developed in another discipline that is not
adapted to the worldview/practice of nursing
✔✔Pros of borrowed theory - ✔✔Apply to realm of nursing actions
Knowledge belongs to scientific community & society
✔✔Cons of borrowed theory - ✔✔Only nsg theories guide actions of discipline
They are tainted when applying to nsg
Must clarify context then define it for nsg perspective
