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NURSING THEORETICAL BASIS EXAM 2025 ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT SOLUTIONS
| GUARANTEED SUCCESS.
Knowledge - (answer)Refers to awareness or perception of reality acquired
through insight, learning, or investigation.
knowledge - (answer)within a discipline, it is what we collectively see as a
reasonably accurate understanding of the world as envisioned by that DISCIPLINE
knowledge - (answer)--tentative and can be expanded/refined over time.
Epistemology - (answer)Study of knowledge
Questions we ask for epistemology (study of knowledge) - (answer)what do we
know?
what is the extent of our knowledge?
how do we decide whether we know?
what are the criteria for knowledge?
ways we know-- - (answer)we need to know how we know- different kinds of
knowledge (hunch- intuitive knowledge, science- empiric knowledge, etc)
Empirics - (answer)Scientific knowledge coming from observation, testing, and
replication. (ex- helps is take accurate BP)
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Personal knowledge - (answer)Knowledge gained through thought alone
(association/reflection, etc)
Esthetic knowledge - (answer)Harmony, beauty, expression. Incorporates art,
creativity, and values (look at one piece of art, some think ugly, some think
beautiful)
Intuitive knowledge - (answer)Feeling and hunches not guessing, but relies on
unconscious pattern recognition and experience.(gained over time and
experience)
Moral and Ethical knowledge - (answer)What is right versus wrong. Values, social
and cultural norms.
(diff societies have different values and ethics, some other countries may even
have different ethical issues than US)
Somatic knowledge - (answer)Knowing the body in relation to physical
movement. Balance to perform task.
ex- knowing that is we move from one position to another we may fall
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Theory - (answer)Set of interrelated concepts, statements, propositions, and
definitions, which have been derived from philosophical beliefs of scientific data
and from which questions and hypotheses can be deduced, tested, and verified
Theory - (answer)attempt to account for or characterize some phenomenon.
Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment and Transactional Process -
(answer)Grand theory.
Assumptions-
- Individuals are social beings, sentiment, rational and reacting (need alert and
oriented individuals who are capable of reacting effectively with nurse-- coma or
decrease neuro pt could not have this theory apply).
- Individuals are controlling, purposeful, actions and time-oriented in their
behavior.
King's Theory of Goal Attainment - (answer)Relationship statements:
Nurses and clients perceptions, judgments, and actions if congruent lead to goal
directed transactions if conflict is present they do not.
If nurse and client make transactions, goals will be attained.
NURSING THEORETICAL BASIS EXAM 2025 ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT SOLUTIONS
| GUARANTEED SUCCESS.
Knowledge - (answer)Refers to awareness or perception of reality acquired
through insight, learning, or investigation.
knowledge - (answer)within a discipline, it is what we collectively see as a
reasonably accurate understanding of the world as envisioned by that DISCIPLINE
knowledge - (answer)--tentative and can be expanded/refined over time.
Epistemology - (answer)Study of knowledge
Questions we ask for epistemology (study of knowledge) - (answer)what do we
know?
what is the extent of our knowledge?
how do we decide whether we know?
what are the criteria for knowledge?
ways we know-- - (answer)we need to know how we know- different kinds of
knowledge (hunch- intuitive knowledge, science- empiric knowledge, etc)
Empirics - (answer)Scientific knowledge coming from observation, testing, and
replication. (ex- helps is take accurate BP)
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Personal knowledge - (answer)Knowledge gained through thought alone
(association/reflection, etc)
Esthetic knowledge - (answer)Harmony, beauty, expression. Incorporates art,
creativity, and values (look at one piece of art, some think ugly, some think
beautiful)
Intuitive knowledge - (answer)Feeling and hunches not guessing, but relies on
unconscious pattern recognition and experience.(gained over time and
experience)
Moral and Ethical knowledge - (answer)What is right versus wrong. Values, social
and cultural norms.
(diff societies have different values and ethics, some other countries may even
have different ethical issues than US)
Somatic knowledge - (answer)Knowing the body in relation to physical
movement. Balance to perform task.
ex- knowing that is we move from one position to another we may fall
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Theory - (answer)Set of interrelated concepts, statements, propositions, and
definitions, which have been derived from philosophical beliefs of scientific data
and from which questions and hypotheses can be deduced, tested, and verified
Theory - (answer)attempt to account for or characterize some phenomenon.
Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment and Transactional Process -
(answer)Grand theory.
Assumptions-
- Individuals are social beings, sentiment, rational and reacting (need alert and
oriented individuals who are capable of reacting effectively with nurse-- coma or
decrease neuro pt could not have this theory apply).
- Individuals are controlling, purposeful, actions and time-oriented in their
behavior.
King's Theory of Goal Attainment - (answer)Relationship statements:
Nurses and clients perceptions, judgments, and actions if congruent lead to goal
directed transactions if conflict is present they do not.
If nurse and client make transactions, goals will be attained.
