NR 501 Nursing Theory Quiz Latest Updated 2024
Knowledge - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-an awareness or perception of reality
acquired through insight, learning, or investigation.
Laws - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-proposition about the relationship between
concepts in a theory that has been repeatedly validated. They are highly
generalizable.
Metaparadigm - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-the global perspective that subsumes
more specific views and approaches to the central concepts with which the
discipline is concerned. It is an ideology within which the theories, knowledge, and
processes for knowing find meaning and coherence.
Middle range theory - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-a part of a disciplines's
concerns related to particular topics which is narrower than that of broad-range
or grand theories.
Model - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-graphic or symbolic representations of
phenomena that objectify and present certain perspectives or points of view
about nature or function or both. May be theoretical or empirical.
, Ontology - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-the studey of existence and the nature of
reality.
Paradigm - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-An organizing framework that contains
concepts, theories, assumptions, beliefs, values, and principles that form the way
a discipline interprets the subject matter with which it is concerned.
Phenomena - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-the designation of an aspect of reality;
the phenomena of interest become the subject matter particular to the primary
concerns of a discipline.
Assumptions - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-beliefs about phenomena one must
accept as true to accept a theory about the phenomena as true.
Borrowed or shared theory - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-a theory developed in
another discipline that is not adapted to the worldview and practice of nursing.
Concept - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-the elements or components of a
phenomenon necessary to understand the phenomenon. They are abstract and
derived from impressions the human mind recieves about phenomena through
sensing the environment.
Knowledge - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-an awareness or perception of reality
acquired through insight, learning, or investigation.
Laws - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-proposition about the relationship between
concepts in a theory that has been repeatedly validated. They are highly
generalizable.
Metaparadigm - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-the global perspective that subsumes
more specific views and approaches to the central concepts with which the
discipline is concerned. It is an ideology within which the theories, knowledge, and
processes for knowing find meaning and coherence.
Middle range theory - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-a part of a disciplines's
concerns related to particular topics which is narrower than that of broad-range
or grand theories.
Model - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-graphic or symbolic representations of
phenomena that objectify and present certain perspectives or points of view
about nature or function or both. May be theoretical or empirical.
, Ontology - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-the studey of existence and the nature of
reality.
Paradigm - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-An organizing framework that contains
concepts, theories, assumptions, beliefs, values, and principles that form the way
a discipline interprets the subject matter with which it is concerned.
Phenomena - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-the designation of an aspect of reality;
the phenomena of interest become the subject matter particular to the primary
concerns of a discipline.
Assumptions - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-beliefs about phenomena one must
accept as true to accept a theory about the phenomena as true.
Borrowed or shared theory - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-a theory developed in
another discipline that is not adapted to the worldview and practice of nursing.
Concept - ✔️CORRECT ANSWER✅-the elements or components of a
phenomenon necessary to understand the phenomenon. They are abstract and
derived from impressions the human mind recieves about phenomena through
sensing the environment.
