Answer to Question 1
Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: Technical skills focus on the competency of the nurse.
Rationale 2: Giving routine back rubs focuses on comfort.
Rationale 3: Writing abilities focus on the competency of the nurse.
Rationale 4: Attention to spiritual needs is part of compassionate care, particularly in the face of death and bereavement.
Answer to Question 2
Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: Empirical knowledge is systematically organized into laws and theories for the purpose of describing, explaining, and predicting phenomena.
Rationale 2: Personal knowledge promotes wholeness and integrity in the personal encounter.
Rationale 3: Aesthetic knowledge is the art of nursing and is expressed by the individual nurse through his or her creativity and style in meeting the needs of clients.
Rationale 4: Ethical knowing focuses on matters of obligation or what ought to be done and goes beyond simply following the ethical codes of the discipline. Internal review boards review research projects and determine whether they meet sound, ethical standards. The more sensitive and knowledgeable the nurse is to these issues, the more ethical the nurse will be.
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