Conceptual Frameworks -Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice Flashcards
All were fascinated with how effective nurses systematically organize general knowledge about nursing in order to understand an individual patient’s situation and determine which of many available strategies would work best to restore health and ameliorate or prevent disease.
Nursing theorists
This reasoning process is linear and includes cause-and-effect reasoning.
Nursing process
Understood to be the hallmark of excellence in nursing practice.
Nursing theorists
When effective nurses made intelligent clinical ___, it was often difficult to determine the precise dynamics that explained how those nurses applied that knowledge
decisions
The building of ___ ___ was an attempt to theorize how all nurses might be taught to organize and synthesize knowledge about nursing so that they would develop advanced clinical reasoning skills.
Nursing models
Conceptual framework builders of the late 1960s and after are usually referred to as nursing ___.
theorists
The building of nursing ___ was an attempt to theorize how all nurses might be taught to organize and synthesize knowledge about nursing so that they would develop advanced clinical reasoning skills.
models
Theorists who developed these frameworks and ___ sought to depict theoretical structures that would enable a nurse to grasp all aspects of a clinical situation within the larger context of available options for nursing care.
models
Global, conceptual framework that provides insight into abstract phenomena, such as human behaviour or nursing science.
Grand Theory
Encompasses a more limited scope and is less abstract.
Middle-range theory
Broad in scope and therefore require further application through research before the ideas they contain can be fully tested. They are intended not to provide guidance for specific nursing interventions but rather to provide the structural framework for broad, abstract ideas about nursing. They are sometimes called paradigms because they represent distinct world views about those phenomena and provide the structural framework within which narrower-range theories can be developed and tested.
Grand theories
Address specific phenomena or concepts and reflect practice (administration, clinical, or teaching). The phenomena or concepts tend to cross different nursing fields and reflect a variety of nursing care situations.
Middle-range theories
Describes phenomena (e.g., responding to illness through patterns of coping), speculates on why phenomena occur, and describes the consequences of phenomena.
Descriptive theory
Have the ability to explain, relate, and, in some situations, predict phenomena of concern to nursing.
Descriptive theories
Designed not to direct specific nursing activities but rather to help explain client assessments and possibly guide future nursing research.
Descriptive theories
