DEFINITION OF TERMS Flashcards
Organized system of accepted knowledge composed of concepts, propositions, definitions, and assumptions intended to explain a set of facts, events, or phenomena.
THEORY
Theory is a logically interrelated sets of confirmed hypotheses
THEORY ACCORDING TO McKAY (1969)
Coherent set of hypothetical, conceptual, and pragmatic principles forming a general frame of reference for a field of inquiry.
THEORY ACCORDING TO ELLIS (1968)
Used to describe a phenomenon or group of phenomena.
CONCEPT
Gives meaning to a phenomena that can directly or indirectly be seen, heard, smell, tasted.
CONCEPT
Ideas, generalization formed in the mind.
CONCEPT
Indirectly observed, intangible
ABSTRACT CONCEPT
Directly observed, tangible
CONCRETE CONCEPT
Group of related ideas, statements, or concepts and conveys a mental image of a phenomenon.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Representation of an idea or body of knowledge based on the own understanding or perception of a person or researcher on a certain topic, phenomena, or theory.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Highly established set of concepts that are testable.
THEORETICAL MODEL/FRAMEWORK
Collection of interrelated concepts, like a theory
THEORETICAL MODEL/FRAMEWORK
Theoretical structure of assumptions, principles, and rules that holds together the ideas comprising a broad concept.
THEORETICAL MODEL/FRAMEWORK
The core, the care, the cure
THEORETICAL MODEL/FRAMEWORK
The person, social sciences therapeutic use of self.
THE CORE
The body, natural and biological sciences intimate care
THE CARE
The disease, Pathological and therapeutic sciences seeing the patient and family through the medical care
THE CURE
Relationship between two concepts
PROPOSITION
Global general framework made up of assumptions about aspect of the discipline held by members to be essential in the development of a discipline.
PARADIGM
Paradigm is understanding and assumption about reality
KOZIER and ERBS
Person or Client, Environment, Health, and Nursing
METAPARADIGM FOR NURSING