Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Asking 'What is the nature of nursing care?' leads to having to answer more basic questions, such as: What is care? What is included in care? What is good care? These questions are indicative of philosophical thinking about nursing practice.

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.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: According to moderate realist tenets, philosophical thought focuses on that which is immaterial and therefore not observable.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: The competing perspectives of a nursing conception or using science to identify what nurses do has created a translation gap that pertains to the use and understanding of theories in the practice of nursing.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: In their study of Western Canadian nurses' perceptions, White et al. (2008) found that the practice and morale of nurses were being negatively affected by unclear intraprofessional and interprofessional scopes of practice.