Chapter 4 Flashcards
What are the 5 types of nursing theories?
- grand: abstract, broad in scope, complex
- middle-range: less abstract, limited in scope
- practice: narrow in scope and focus
- descriptive: describe phenomena and identify circumstances in which phenomena occur
- prescriptive: address nursing interventions for a phenomenon, guide practice change, and predict the consequences
What is the goal of nursing knowledge?
to explain the practice of nursing as different and distinct from practices of medicine, psychology, and other health care disciplines
Why is nursing theory useful?
it generates nursing knowledge for use in practice, thus supporting EBP; provides nurses with prospectives from which to analyze patient data
What is Nightingale’s environmental theory?
– grand theory
– environment is the focus of nursing care
What is Peplau’s interpersonal theory?
– middle-range theory
– interpersonal relations between nurse, patient, and patient’s family are the focus
What is Orem’s self-care deficit nursing theory?
– grand theory
– patient’s self-care needs are the focus
– continually assesses how much self-care a patient is able to perform
What is Leininger’s culture care theory?
– middle-range theory
– theory of cultural care diversity and universality
– integrates patients’ cultural traditionals, values, and beliefs into care plans
