CHAPTER 5: INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (IADL) PROFILE Description The Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Profile is a performance-based measure designed for those with traumatic brain injury (TBI)…
CHAPTER 2: ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING QUESTIONNAIRE (ADLQ) Description The Activities of Daily Living Questionnaire (ADLQ) is an informant-based assessment that measures an individual’s functional ability and is designed for…
CHAPTER EIGHT Scientific Methodology What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience? This implies a new question, which may be of more difficult solutions and explication. —David Hume (1748/1974)…
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Next Steps Toward Practice Knowledge Development: An Emerging Epistemology in Nursing New forms of knowledge production can, as they diffuse, make for ambiguous situations as older demarcation lines…
CHAPTER NINE Observation: The Scientific Gaze There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball. —Norwood Russell Hanson (1965) There is perhaps no more basic and fundamental element of modern…
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Philosophies of Social Science Man, who desires to know everything, desires to know himself. Nor is he only one … among other things he desires to know. Without…
CHAPTER FIFTEEN The 100-Year Path to Nursing Science, 1910 to 2010: With Epilogue, 2010 to 2015 Nursing education is undergoing drastic changes. —Annie W. Goodrich (1936) In this chapter, we…
CHAPTER ELEVEN Explanation and Laws To explain the phenomena in the world of our experience, to answer the question “why?” … is one of the foremost objectives of empirical science….
CHAPTER SIX 100 Years of the Philosophy of Science: A Historical Overview We may best hope to understand the nature and conditions of real knowledge, by studying the nature and…
CHAPTER FOUR Philosophy and Philosophizing This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin. —Plato (2003) Before beginning an exploration of the various…
