CNUR 209 MIDTERM EXAM REVIEW | COMPLETE NURSING STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & EXAM PREP 2026/2027
Research - ANS ✔✔Diligent, systematic inquiry that answers research questions, confirms,
verifies existing knowledge and creates new knowledge
Nursing Research - ANS ✔✔a scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge as
well as develops new information that impacts the practice of nursing
Ways of Knowing - ANS ✔✔tradition, authority, borrowing, trial and error, personal experience,
role modeling, intuition, reasoning and research
Knowledge - ANS ✔✔Essential information, acquired in different ways that is expected to be an
accurate reflection of reality and is incorporated and used to direct a person's action
Elements of Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-certainty, hard to deny
-evidence, based on actual or traceable data or published research studies
-practicality, works in the real world
-broad agreement, many people agree that it is true
Evidence-informed practice - ANS ✔✔Practice that is inclusice and encompasses expert opinion,
clinical expertise, patient preference and other ways of knowing
-seeks for and appraises the best evidence from research
Empirical Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-theoretical knowledge or scientific knowledge
-the science of nursing
-systematically organized knowledge that guides evidence-informed practice
, Esthetic Pattern of Knowing - ANS ✔✔-the art of nursing
-gains knowledge from alternative form of reality such as empathy
Personal Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-most difficult to master and teach, but the most essential in
understanding the meaning of health
-involves knowing, encountering and actualizing the individual self
Moral Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-focus on the appropriateness of an action, what is right or wrong
-goes beyond ethical codes of the profession and embraces all the actions that are subject to
the judgement of right or wrong
Explicit or Propositional Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-knowledge expressed in words and numbers
Tacit or non-propositional Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-knowledge based on experience, tacit is
personal knowledge
Traditional Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-truths or beliefs based on customs and trends
Authority Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-a person with expertise and power who influences opinion and
behaviour
Borrowing Knowledge - ANS ✔✔information borrowed from other disciplines such as medicine,
sociology, psychology, education
Trial and Error - ANS ✔✔an approach with unknown result and used when other sources of
knowledge are not available
QUESTIONS & EXAM PREP 2026/2027
Research - ANS ✔✔Diligent, systematic inquiry that answers research questions, confirms,
verifies existing knowledge and creates new knowledge
Nursing Research - ANS ✔✔a scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge as
well as develops new information that impacts the practice of nursing
Ways of Knowing - ANS ✔✔tradition, authority, borrowing, trial and error, personal experience,
role modeling, intuition, reasoning and research
Knowledge - ANS ✔✔Essential information, acquired in different ways that is expected to be an
accurate reflection of reality and is incorporated and used to direct a person's action
Elements of Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-certainty, hard to deny
-evidence, based on actual or traceable data or published research studies
-practicality, works in the real world
-broad agreement, many people agree that it is true
Evidence-informed practice - ANS ✔✔Practice that is inclusice and encompasses expert opinion,
clinical expertise, patient preference and other ways of knowing
-seeks for and appraises the best evidence from research
Empirical Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-theoretical knowledge or scientific knowledge
-the science of nursing
-systematically organized knowledge that guides evidence-informed practice
, Esthetic Pattern of Knowing - ANS ✔✔-the art of nursing
-gains knowledge from alternative form of reality such as empathy
Personal Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-most difficult to master and teach, but the most essential in
understanding the meaning of health
-involves knowing, encountering and actualizing the individual self
Moral Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-focus on the appropriateness of an action, what is right or wrong
-goes beyond ethical codes of the profession and embraces all the actions that are subject to
the judgement of right or wrong
Explicit or Propositional Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-knowledge expressed in words and numbers
Tacit or non-propositional Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-knowledge based on experience, tacit is
personal knowledge
Traditional Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-truths or beliefs based on customs and trends
Authority Knowledge - ANS ✔✔-a person with expertise and power who influences opinion and
behaviour
Borrowing Knowledge - ANS ✔✔information borrowed from other disciplines such as medicine,
sociology, psychology, education
Trial and Error - ANS ✔✔an approach with unknown result and used when other sources of
knowledge are not available
