Nursing Theories And Nursing Practice _ 4th Edition By Smith Parker – Test Bank

1. The purpose of theory is to: 2. Explain experience. 3. Describe relationships. 4. Project outcomes. 5. All of the above 2. Members of a community of scholars share a commitment to all of the following except: 3. Values. 4. Knowledge. 5. Geographic location. 6. Processes. 3. and structures are essential to any discipline and are inherent in nursing theories. 4. Paradigm and metaparadigm 5. Syntactical and conceptual 6. Middle and grand 7. Language and symbol 4. Books and periodicals are examples of: 5. Communication networks. 6. Heritage of literature. 7. Nursing organizations. 8. Nursing discipline. 5. The basic building blocks of theories are: 6. Concepts and their definitions. 7. Statements of relationships. 8. Concepts and statements of relationships. 9. Empirical indicators. 6. Nursing theories: 7. Are discovered in nature. 8. Serve as exact representations of reality. 9. Are invented by humans. 10. Cannot be modified. 7. A paradigm is defined as a: 8. Worldview. 9. General framework. 10. Set of shared perspectives held by members of a discipline. 11. All of the above 8. The dependence of nursing theory development on human imagination is an attribute of nursing as a(n): 9. Occupation. 10. Discipline. 11. Vocation. 12. Profession.