Reading 17

Question 1

Understanding Nursing Knowledge

Answer 1

Rogers

Question 2

Nurses need to be able to (3)

IQ R

Answer 2

Identify assumptions and biases
Question their own knowledge
Recognize alternative ways of thinking in various situations

Question 3

Importance of nursing knowledge development AAAT

Answer 3

Articulate knowledge base of nurses rather than tasks
Address problems relevant to nurses
Approach inquiry from a perspective of nursing
Take responsibility for continuing development of the discipline

Question 4

*A discipline is characterized by??

Answer 4

a substantive structure and a syntax

Question 5

*A substantive structure of a discipline is…

Answer 5

the content – conceptualizations, theories principles that determine the focus of interest and scope of inquiry

Question 6

*The syntax of a discipline involves?

Answer 6

methodologies and the means to determine the appropriateness or credibility of knowledge developed within the discipline

Question 7

Both of these occur within?

Answer 7

the broader perspective that characterizes the discipline

Question 8

*A discipline is characterized by 3 elements

Answer 8

1) the current explanatory goals of the science
2) a current repertoire of concepts and processes
3) the accumulated experience of the scientists working in the discipline

Question 9

*A profession is

Answer 9

an organized set of institutions, roles and people whose business it is to apply or improve the procedures and techniques of the discipline