Writing Homework Help

This week’s content addressed the steps for confirming and validating

empiric knowledge. Using the assigned readings and your professional

experience as a starting point, answer the following:

1. Consider the signs and symptoms you personally associate with an

abstract concept in your daily professional practice (e.g., grief, anxiety,

fear, pain, etc). How do you know if these are “true” indicators of what

the patient is actually experiencing? Provide a supporting rationale.

2. Discuss the role of empirical assessment in confirmation and validation

of empiric knowledge in relationship to the abstract concept you

identified in #1.

3. Identify and discuss a tool that could be used to empirically assess the

abstract concept. In your discussion, state which theory the tool was

derived from.