Chapter 1 Flashcards
It was recognized that, to develop nursing as an academic discipline and a profession, a body of knowledge to guide nursing practice is essential.
Nursing Theory
Plays a vital role in guiding critical thinking in nursing practice.
Nursing Theory
Theory informs practice and vice versa.
Nursing theory
The backbone of clinical care.
Nursing theory
What year is the Focuses on manipulation of the environment for the benefit of the patient.
1859 & 1992
“Notes on Nursing”
Florence Nightingale
Need to prepare nurses at the graduate level for administrative and faculty position was recognized
1950s “The Columbia School”
Focus of theoretical thinking in nursing changed.
1960s, The Yale School
A timeless legacy for the nursing profession.
Florence Nightingale
developed graduate education programs to meet these functional needs.
The Columbia School
They considered patient problems and needs to be the practice focus.
The Columbia School
suggested that nursing knowledge is based on a theory of nursing diagnosis that is different from medical diagnosis.
Dorothy Johnson
Theoretical thinking in nursing moved from a problem/need and functional role focus to the relationship between the nurse and the patient.
The Yale School of
The Yale’s school theoretical position was influenced by
Henderson, Orlando and Wiedenbach.
It was in this decade that many nursing theories were first presented.
1970
Many nursing theories were revised based on the research findings that expanded them.
1980s
There were numerous research studies that were tested and helped expand the nursing theory.
1990s
In 1992, Parse changed the language of her theory from Man-Living-Health to the theory of
Human Becoming
The Eras of Nursing Knowledge
- Curriculum Era (1900-1940s)
- Research Era (1950-1970s)
- Graduate Education Era (1950-1970s)
- Theory Era (1980-1990s)
- Theory Utilization Era (21” Century)
efforts to understand the nature of the knowledge needed for the practice of nursing are evident from an emphasis on curricular content and the movement toward the goal of standardized curricula.
Curriculum Era
“fundamentals,” which means
“basic essentials,”
Nursing procedures were taught and practiced in a ward-like classroom called a “____” laboratory.
“nursing arts”
later decades, when nursing curricula emphasized science and research, these rooms were referred to as
“skills labs”
The move of nursing into higher schools of learning brought with it a significant change in the search for a substantive body of knowledge.
Research Era
