NURSING ASSIGNMENT 2

Learning Outcomes, Chapter 5, Patterns of Knowing and Nursing Science

By the end of this chapter, the learner will be able to:

1. Discuss the evolution of three systems of thought about how to organize developing knowledge in science.

2. Describe the differences among logical empiricism, historicism, and postmodernism in their philosophical approaches to the development of knowledge.

3. Explain the differences among the patterns of knowing in professional nursing.

4. Compare and contrast concepts, theories, and conceptual models.

5. Identify the four central concepts of nursing that are the focus of scientific inquiry in nursing.