Nature Of Nursing-ch3: Nursing Theories And Conceptual Frameworks

Question 1

A group of related concepts

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Conceptual framework

Question 2

Describe theories that help elucidate how social structures affect a wide variety of human experiences from art to social practices

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Critical theory

Question 3

All of the conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding and affecting the development of an organism or person

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Environment

Question 4

Articulate a broad range of significant relationships among the concept of a discipline

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Grand theories

Question 5

Originates from the Greek meta, meaning “with,” and paradigm, meeting “pattern”; based on for theoretical concepts of nursing: person, environment, health, and nursing

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Metaparadigm

Question 6

Focus on exploration of concepts such as pain, self esteem, learning, and hardiness

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Midlevel theories

Question 7

A pattern of shared understandings and assumptions about reality in the world

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Paradigm

Question 8

An early effort to define phenomena that serves as the basis for later theoretical formulations

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Philosophy

Question 9

Field of study in which the central focus is performance of professional role (nursing, teaching, management, making music)

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Practice discipline

Question 10

A system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given phenomenon (e.g., theory of gravity)

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Theory

Question 11

A person who engages the advice or services of another person who is qualified to provide this service

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Client