NSGD 3006- THEORIES EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
VERIFIED.
Knowledge - ANS Expressed in ways that can be shared with others
may be discipline specific and have met standards of critique across the discipline
Knowing - ANS Internal to the knower (nurse)
reflective of a range of experiences that are unique to the individual and processed over time
and with personal reflection
Nursing praxis - ANS Refers to the reciprocal relationship of theory and practice, each
influencing each other
3 core dimensions of nursing praxis - ANS being, knowing, doing
Empirical knowing - ANS Science of nursing
theories, concepts, principles, and research findings
includes knowledge from within nursing and knowledge taken from other health and related
fields
Personal knowing - ANS Involves knowing ourselves
patients are not seen as "objects" but as a full person
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, Aesthetic knowing - ANS the art of nursing
connects with deep meaning of a situation and engages inner creative resources
Ethical knowing - ANS Describes the moral component in nursing
moment to moment judgements about what should be done
clarifying conflicting values
Moral distress - ANS when there is no apparent right choice, nurses may experience a
phenomenon known as...
Emancipatory knowing - ANS describes a 5th pattern of knowing
refers to the human capacity to be aware of and critically reflect on social, cultural, and political
elements
calls upon nurses to question why social injustice occurs
Coping - ANS Refers to the processes that act to maintain adaptation of the organism/being
and promote transformations of the person and the environment
Adaptation - ANS refers to the process and outcome by which thinking and feeling are used
to create human and environmental integration.
Conscious awareness and choice - ANS _________ & ________ are central to the process of
adaptation
Regulator-cognator system and the stabilizer-innovator system - ANS In order for coping and
adaptation to occur Roy describes the functioning of 2 theoretical subsystems
Regulator-cognator system - ANS refers to the mechanisms within an INDIVIDUAL that
promote coping
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
VERIFIED.
Knowledge - ANS Expressed in ways that can be shared with others
may be discipline specific and have met standards of critique across the discipline
Knowing - ANS Internal to the knower (nurse)
reflective of a range of experiences that are unique to the individual and processed over time
and with personal reflection
Nursing praxis - ANS Refers to the reciprocal relationship of theory and practice, each
influencing each other
3 core dimensions of nursing praxis - ANS being, knowing, doing
Empirical knowing - ANS Science of nursing
theories, concepts, principles, and research findings
includes knowledge from within nursing and knowledge taken from other health and related
fields
Personal knowing - ANS Involves knowing ourselves
patients are not seen as "objects" but as a full person
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, Aesthetic knowing - ANS the art of nursing
connects with deep meaning of a situation and engages inner creative resources
Ethical knowing - ANS Describes the moral component in nursing
moment to moment judgements about what should be done
clarifying conflicting values
Moral distress - ANS when there is no apparent right choice, nurses may experience a
phenomenon known as...
Emancipatory knowing - ANS describes a 5th pattern of knowing
refers to the human capacity to be aware of and critically reflect on social, cultural, and political
elements
calls upon nurses to question why social injustice occurs
Coping - ANS Refers to the processes that act to maintain adaptation of the organism/being
and promote transformations of the person and the environment
Adaptation - ANS refers to the process and outcome by which thinking and feeling are used
to create human and environmental integration.
Conscious awareness and choice - ANS _________ & ________ are central to the process of
adaptation
Regulator-cognator system and the stabilizer-innovator system - ANS In order for coping and
adaptation to occur Roy describes the functioning of 2 theoretical subsystems
Regulator-cognator system - ANS refers to the mechanisms within an INDIVIDUAL that
promote coping
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