UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI NURS 8002
EVALUATION TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Constructed knowledge - ✔✔______ knowledge focuses on developing theory to
guide practice - increasing number of middle range and practice theories and models
✔✔Integrated knowledge - ✔✔assimilation and application of evidence from nursing
and other healthcare disciplines and emphasis on nursing science with integration into
practice and translational research
✔✔Paradigm - ✔✔organizing framework that contains concepts, theories, assumptions,
beliefs, values, principles and affects the way a discipline interprets the subject
✔✔Nursing paradigm - ✔✔the ______ is the framework that includes person, health,
nursing, and environment
✔✔Epistemology - ✔✔____________ is the study of knowledge; refers to theories of
knowledge or how people come to have knowledge; in nursing it is the study of the
origins of nursing knowledge (How do we decide if we know)
✔✔Metatheory - ✔✔theory about theory - most abstract/broad
, ✔✔Grand Theory - ✔✔This type of therory is a nonspecific theory and is composed of
primarily abstract concepts
✔✔Middle Range Theory - ✔✔This type of theory has a limited number of concepts and
more specific
✔✔Practice Theory - ✔✔prescriptive theories or situation specific theories - least
complex/abstract, more concrete and measurable
✔✔Descriptive Theories - ✔✔This type of theory § Describe, observe, and name
concepts, properties, and dimensions; try to understand "what's going on" § DO NOT
explain interrelationships among concepts § Perceived by some as the most important
type of theory because it expands or refines the concepts and relationships that are
important to study
✔✔Naming theories, Classifaction theories - ✔✔what are the 2 types of descriptive
theories
✔✔Naming theory - ✔✔describes the characteristics of phenomenon
✔✔Classification theories - ✔✔describe characteristics that are structurally interrelated
✔✔Descriptive Theory - ✔✔The "almost normal" conceptual model describing the
experience of adolescents living with implantable cardioverter defibrillators is an
example of what theory
✔✔Explanatory Theories - ✔✔This type of theory relates concepts to one another and
describe and specify associations between concepts § You understand the concepts
but now you're trying to understand the association of concepts
✔✔Explanatory Theory - ✔✔theoretical model of guarding against cancer explaining the
interaction of factors and beliefs leading to how older women make decisions about
being screened for breast cancer
✔✔Predictive Theories - ✔✔Situation Relating Theories
Describe the relationship between concepts. Are generated and tested by experimental
research
✔✔Example of Predictive Theory - ✔✔patient satisfaction with nurse practitioners
✔✔Prescriptive Theories - ✔✔This theory prescribes activities necessary to reach
defined goals
EVALUATION TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Constructed knowledge - ✔✔______ knowledge focuses on developing theory to
guide practice - increasing number of middle range and practice theories and models
✔✔Integrated knowledge - ✔✔assimilation and application of evidence from nursing
and other healthcare disciplines and emphasis on nursing science with integration into
practice and translational research
✔✔Paradigm - ✔✔organizing framework that contains concepts, theories, assumptions,
beliefs, values, principles and affects the way a discipline interprets the subject
✔✔Nursing paradigm - ✔✔the ______ is the framework that includes person, health,
nursing, and environment
✔✔Epistemology - ✔✔____________ is the study of knowledge; refers to theories of
knowledge or how people come to have knowledge; in nursing it is the study of the
origins of nursing knowledge (How do we decide if we know)
✔✔Metatheory - ✔✔theory about theory - most abstract/broad
, ✔✔Grand Theory - ✔✔This type of therory is a nonspecific theory and is composed of
primarily abstract concepts
✔✔Middle Range Theory - ✔✔This type of theory has a limited number of concepts and
more specific
✔✔Practice Theory - ✔✔prescriptive theories or situation specific theories - least
complex/abstract, more concrete and measurable
✔✔Descriptive Theories - ✔✔This type of theory § Describe, observe, and name
concepts, properties, and dimensions; try to understand "what's going on" § DO NOT
explain interrelationships among concepts § Perceived by some as the most important
type of theory because it expands or refines the concepts and relationships that are
important to study
✔✔Naming theories, Classifaction theories - ✔✔what are the 2 types of descriptive
theories
✔✔Naming theory - ✔✔describes the characteristics of phenomenon
✔✔Classification theories - ✔✔describe characteristics that are structurally interrelated
✔✔Descriptive Theory - ✔✔The "almost normal" conceptual model describing the
experience of adolescents living with implantable cardioverter defibrillators is an
example of what theory
✔✔Explanatory Theories - ✔✔This type of theory relates concepts to one another and
describe and specify associations between concepts § You understand the concepts
but now you're trying to understand the association of concepts
✔✔Explanatory Theory - ✔✔theoretical model of guarding against cancer explaining the
interaction of factors and beliefs leading to how older women make decisions about
being screened for breast cancer
✔✔Predictive Theories - ✔✔Situation Relating Theories
Describe the relationship between concepts. Are generated and tested by experimental
research
✔✔Example of Predictive Theory - ✔✔patient satisfaction with nurse practitioners
✔✔Prescriptive Theories - ✔✔This theory prescribes activities necessary to reach
defined goals
