NSC 252 Exam 2: Nursing Theory, Research, and Evidence-Based Nursing Practice, Questions and answers, rated A+

NSC 252 Exam 2: Nursing Theory, Research, and Evidence-Based Nursing Practice, Questions and answers, rated A+ What is Nursing? - -A Science What is Science? - -A RESEARCH BASED coherent body of knowledge composed of research findings, tested theories, scientific principles, and laws for a discipline (Burns and Grove, 2011 p. 548) What is scientific discipline? - -instruction or learning based on study about physical or material world what do nursing theory and research provide the scientific base for? - -Evidence Based Nursing Practice Who made the comment "Theory without practice may be empty, but practice without theory is blind" - -Immanuel Kant in the 17th century What is a Theory? - -System of ideas that is presumed to explain a given phenomenon...a major, very well arctculated idea about something important What words does the word "Theory come from?" - -Viewing or contemplating What did Chiinn and Kramer 1998 say a Theory was? - -group of related concepts, definitions, and statements that describe a certain view of the nursing phenomenon from which to describe, explain, or predict outcomes.