UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI NURS 8002 QUIZ 1 (MOD 1-3)
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Awareness or perception of reality acquired through insight,
learning, or investigation.
Is tentative - expanded/refined over time
What are Caper's different ways of knowing? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Empirical knowledge
2. Personal Knowledge
3. Esthetic knowledge
4. Moral or ethical knowledge
5. Intuitive knowledge
6. Somatic knowledge
Even People Eyeing Morals Initially Suck (my own mnemonic)
empirics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Caper Ways of Knowing
scientific knowledge coming from observation, testing, and replication
Personal Knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Caper Ways of Knowing
knowledge gained from thought alone
Esthetic knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Caper Ways of Knowing
Harmony, beauty, expression - incorporates art, creativity, values
Its like how you know something is pretty when you look at it
Moral or ethical knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Caper Ways of Knowing
,what is right versus wrong - values, social and cultural norms
Intuitive Knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Caper Ways of Knowing
feeling and hunches not guessing, but relies on unconscious pattern recognition and experience
Somatic knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Caper Ways of Knowing
Knowing the body in relation to physical movement- balance to perform a task
Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a set of logical interrelated concepts, statements, propositions, and
definitions which have been derived from philosphical beliefs of scientific data from which questions
and hypotheses can be deduced, tested and verified.
attempts to account for or characterize some phenomenon
They are abstract thoughts that come together that form propositions to relationship statements.
Research - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅actual process of systematic inquiry to answer a research question
used to investigate speculative theory and refine and test the reliability and validity of established
theories and ultimately generate new theories. Research further refines theories that are very broad.
From a big theory, research can evolve lots of little theories.
outcomes of systematic inquiry
study of the process of systematic inquiry
clinical reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a cognitive process that allow us to think, identify
relationships, and for judgements about information
provides us with the basis for justification of our actions; its an important nursing skill that is
intentionally developed as we develop more knowledge and interrelationships to other situations.
, EBP - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of theory-derived, research-
based information in making decisions about care delivery to individuals or groups of patients and in
consideration of individual needs and preferences
A process involving the examination and application of research findings or reliable evidence that has
been integrated with scientific theories. Nurses must employ their critical thinking skills to review
research publications and other informational sources.
3 competencies expected of advanced practice nurse - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. critique and evaluate a
variety of theories from nursing and relation fields
2. apply and utilize appropriate theories from heath care to clients
3. understand the health care delivery system in which they practice through the application of
appropriate theories
History of nursing theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅subjective knowledge - beginning, theory
development
Procedural knowledge - grand theories
Constructed knowledge - guide practice - middle theories, grand theories
Concept - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅components of a phenomenon, building blocks of theories
relationship statement
conceptual definition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅word definition
operational definition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅how its measured
Construct - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅complex type of concept
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Awareness or perception of reality acquired through insight,
learning, or investigation.
Is tentative - expanded/refined over time
What are Caper's different ways of knowing? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Empirical knowledge
2. Personal Knowledge
3. Esthetic knowledge
4. Moral or ethical knowledge
5. Intuitive knowledge
6. Somatic knowledge
Even People Eyeing Morals Initially Suck (my own mnemonic)
empirics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Caper Ways of Knowing
scientific knowledge coming from observation, testing, and replication
Personal Knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Caper Ways of Knowing
knowledge gained from thought alone
Esthetic knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Caper Ways of Knowing
Harmony, beauty, expression - incorporates art, creativity, values
Its like how you know something is pretty when you look at it
Moral or ethical knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Caper Ways of Knowing
,what is right versus wrong - values, social and cultural norms
Intuitive Knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Caper Ways of Knowing
feeling and hunches not guessing, but relies on unconscious pattern recognition and experience
Somatic knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Caper Ways of Knowing
Knowing the body in relation to physical movement- balance to perform a task
Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a set of logical interrelated concepts, statements, propositions, and
definitions which have been derived from philosphical beliefs of scientific data from which questions
and hypotheses can be deduced, tested and verified.
attempts to account for or characterize some phenomenon
They are abstract thoughts that come together that form propositions to relationship statements.
Research - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅actual process of systematic inquiry to answer a research question
used to investigate speculative theory and refine and test the reliability and validity of established
theories and ultimately generate new theories. Research further refines theories that are very broad.
From a big theory, research can evolve lots of little theories.
outcomes of systematic inquiry
study of the process of systematic inquiry
clinical reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a cognitive process that allow us to think, identify
relationships, and for judgements about information
provides us with the basis for justification of our actions; its an important nursing skill that is
intentionally developed as we develop more knowledge and interrelationships to other situations.
, EBP - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of theory-derived, research-
based information in making decisions about care delivery to individuals or groups of patients and in
consideration of individual needs and preferences
A process involving the examination and application of research findings or reliable evidence that has
been integrated with scientific theories. Nurses must employ their critical thinking skills to review
research publications and other informational sources.
3 competencies expected of advanced practice nurse - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. critique and evaluate a
variety of theories from nursing and relation fields
2. apply and utilize appropriate theories from heath care to clients
3. understand the health care delivery system in which they practice through the application of
appropriate theories
History of nursing theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅subjective knowledge - beginning, theory
development
Procedural knowledge - grand theories
Constructed knowledge - guide practice - middle theories, grand theories
Concept - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅components of a phenomenon, building blocks of theories
relationship statement
conceptual definition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅word definition
operational definition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅how its measured
Construct - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅complex type of concept
