The Frenchay Activities Index (FAI)
CHAPTER 4: THE FRENCHAY ACTIVITIES INDEX (FAI) Description Developed by Holbrook and Skilbeck, (1983), the Frenchay Activities Index (FAI) is a questionnaire that is used to measure instrumental activities of…
Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Profile
CHAPTER 1: ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (ADL) PROFILE Description The ADL Profile is both a performance-based assessment and questionnaire that is administered through a semi-structured interview and is designed to…
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Profile
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)…
Activities of Daily Living Questionnaire (ADLQ)
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…
Scientific Methodology
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)…
Next Steps Toward Practice Knowledge Development: An Emerging Epistemology in Nursing
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…
Observation: The Scientific Gaze
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…
Philosophies of Social Science
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…
The 100-Year Path to Nursing Science, 1910 to 2010: With Epilogue, 2010 to 2015
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…
Explanation and Laws
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….
