NSG 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dependent And Independent Variables, Subjectivism, Dementia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Nursing
• Course: NSG 3301
• Professor: Eleanor Riesen

Document Summary

It all starts with a question and each question requires you to engage in a knowledge development process. Knowledge gap: the absence of theoretical or scientific knowledge about the phenomenon of interest: (cid:862)i (cid:449)o(cid:374)der (cid:449)h(cid:455) ____(cid:863) this is (cid:373)ai(cid:374)l(cid:455) fou(cid:374)d i(cid:374) the field, asking questions. Knowledge distribution: sharing your knowledge with other: share with professional, formal presentation (conferences, journals, publications, reports) Knowledge adoption: taking in new knowledge and adding it to your practice: knew knowledge can be used to develop new policies and protocols. Knowledge review and revision: old information is replaced with new: new health issues lead to the asking of new questions, new questions prompt the need for new research. Nurses get knowledge through various means, not just research. Some ways nurses obtain knowledge: empirical knowledge, personal knowledge, experimental knowledge ethical knowledge, aesthetic knowledge, and sociopolitical knowledge. Most commonly referred to as scientific knowledge.