Chapter 7: Thinking Philosophically in Nursing in Canada - Nurselytic

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Thinking philosophically, or philosophizing, entails asking questions about the nature of that which exists and happens in the world and about what humans ought to seek and do.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: The enterprise to base the development of a body of nursing knowledge on conceptions of the nature of nursing was initiated by nursing education.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: If nurses ask and answer questions in the absence of wonder, they are not truly or genuinely philosophizing but rather operating as technicians, treating philosophizing as a skill that can be acquired in the way that we can acquire any skill.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Given the unprecedented rate at which scientific and technical knowledge is expanding nursing curricula, students need to be exposed to courses in the humanities and engage in the liberal thought that is a cornerstone of an academic education.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Thou et al. (2019) explored three philosophies of truth (correspondence, pragmatism, and coherence) and how these theories facilitate or impede nursing knowledge creation.