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Ross-Kerr and Wood’s Canadian Nursing Issues & Perspectives: CDN NURSING ISSUES & PERSPECTIVES 6th Edition
Chapter 6 : Theoretical Issues in Nursing in the Twenty-First Century: Nursing Theorizing as Everyday Practice Questions
Question 1 of 5
The study of the nursing knowledge that is shared among nurses, including patterns of knowing and the knowledge that develops from knowing, is referred to as which of the following?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Nursing epistemology is the study of the knowledge that is shared among nurses, the patterns of knowing, and the knowledge that develops from those patterns. As a practice discipline, the study of nursing knowledge is achieved in multiple ways, including observation and practice experience.
Question 2 of 5
Carper's (1978) foundational work on patterns of knowing include empirical, ethical, aesthetic, and personal knowing. Tom is preparing an essay for his application to graduate studies in nursing and is interested in examining aesthetic ways of knowing in nursing. Which of the following comments would reflect a nurse's aesthetic knowledge?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Aesthetic knowing involves the creation of a singular, particular subjective expression of imagined possibilities or equivalent expression, not so easily put into language form. Empathy and compassion are modes in the aesthetic pattern of knowing.
Question 3 of 5
Which of the following statements is true about nursing ontology?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Ontology is directly linked to philosophy, and nursing ontology describes what is most characteristic and fundamental to the practice of nursing. It is a way of seeing and describing the whole of nursing.
Question 4 of 5
One successful approach to theory-practice inquiry in nursing involves exploring nurses' clinical practice and clinical reasoning with the ultimate result of theory generation. This approach is known as which of the following?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: An inductive hermeneutic approach involves exploring nurses' clinical practice and clinical reasoning, with the ultimate result of theory generation.
Question 5 of 5
In the ancient spiritual society of the Great Lakes nation of Midewiwin, healers and spiritual leaders are known as which of the following?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The Midewiwin, also known as the Grand Medicine Society, is an ancient spiritual society, once widespread among the Ojibway or Anishinaabe people, and by many other Great Lakes nations. In this society, Mides are considered healers and spiritual leaders and the source of evidence is spiritual in nature.