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Ross-Kerr and Wood’s Canadian Nursing Issues & Perspectives: CDN NURSING ISSUES & PERSPECTIVES 6th Edition
Chapter 6 Questions
Question 1 of 5
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) has called nurses to action and identified which of the following recommendations to be directly addressed by the nursing profession? (Select all that apply.)
Correct Answer: A,E,G
Rationale: Recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TR
C) include rights and equity for Indigenous People, programs and services to foster respectful relationships with Indigenous People, and commemoration of Canadian heritage.
Question 2 of 5
Many researchers argue that nursing education should take a decolonizing stance when linking theory to practice. Select all of the actions below that could demonstrate decolonization in nursing education. (Select all that apply.)
Correct Answer: C,D,G
Rationale: Decolonization of nursing education will involve disrupting and exposing colonial ideologies, values, and structures embedded in nursing curricula, teaching methodologies, and professional development education.
Question 3 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 4 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 5 of 5
Which of the following is a central concept of the metaparadigm of nursing theory and knowledge?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The metaparadigm provides central concepts from which to build our theory and nursing knowledge including nursing, persons, environment, and health.