Which option reflects the "authority" approach to knowledge development?
1. The nurses on the unit have used a variety of approaches to a client care problem, trying to find one that is effective.
2. A nurse approaches a client care situation in a specific manner because "that is what seems to be the best thing to do.".
3. When asked why client care is organized in the current manner the nurse manager states, "We've always done it that way.".
4. When faced with a question regarding provision of nursing care, the nurse consults a nursing textbook for instruction.
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Rationale 1: A series of attempts to solve a problem until a solution is reached is called trial and error.
Rationale 2: This approach is the use of nursing intuition.
Rationale 3: This statement reflects the use of "tradition" in the use of nursing knowledge.
Rationale 4: This nurse is gaining nursing knowledge by using an authority source, the nursing textbook.
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