Historical Eras Flashcards
Courses included in nursing programs
Curriculum Era:
1900 to 1970’s
Carving out an advance role and basis for nursing practice
Graduated Education Era: 1950 to 1970’s
Role of nurses and what to research
Research Era: 1950 to1970’s
How do these frameworks guide research and practice
Theory Era: 1980 to 1990’s
Courses included in nursing programs
Curriculum Era: 1900 - 1940’s
Middle-range theory may be from quantitative to qualitative approaches
Theory Utilization Era: 21st Century
Focus graduate education on knowledge development
Graduate Education Era: 1950-1970’s
There are many ways thing about nursing
Theory Era: 1980 - 1990’s
Theories guide nursing research and practice
Theory Era: 1980 -1990’s
Standardized curricula for diploma programs
Curriculum Era: 1900 - 1940’s
Nurses have an important role in health care
Graduate Education Era: 1950 - 1970’s
Nursing theoretical works shift the focus to the patient
Theory Era: 1980 - 1990’s
Isolated studies do not yield unified knowledge
Research Era: 1950 - 1970’s
Nursing frameworks to produce knowledge (evidence) for quality care
Theory Ulitization Era: 21st Century
Develop specialized knowledge and higher education
Curriculum Era: 1900 - 1940’s
Began to assume the great significance of providing a clean and healthy environment.
Florence Nightingale
She also envisioned nurse as a body of educated women.
Florence Nightingale
What Fawcett classified models as specialized meta-paradigm
°Person
° Environment
° Health
°Nursing Concepts
In 20th century nursing was not recognized as an
Academic or a Profession
What is real is also considered knowledge
Epistemology (episteme - knowledge; logos
Use of the rational senses in ensuring the truthfulness of phenomenon
Rationalism
A theory which states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
Empiricism
Statement in a theory may states definitions or relations among concepts
Relational Statement
Relate concepts to one another; permit analysis
Theoretical Statement
