Nursing Theories Flashcards

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Nursing theories

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organized bodies…
define nursing as a…
it is a framework…

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History of nursing theory

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to develop nursing as an academic discipline and a profession, a body of knowledge to guide the nursing practice is essential

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Theory without practice is _____ and Practice without theory is _____.

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Empty, Blind

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Florence Nightingale

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“Notes on Nursing”
Environmental Theory

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Environmental Theory

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Act of utilizing the patient’s environment to assist him/her in his/her recovery.

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A-S-K

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Attitude - Skill - Knowledge

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3 ‘H’ of nursing

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Heart - Attitude
Hands - Skills
Head - Knowledge

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Nursing Process

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identify health process and need of patient
(ADPIE)

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1859-1992

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Environmental Theory (Florence Nightingale)

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1950’s

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Columbia school
*Graduate programs
-nursing knowledge is based on nursing diagnosis that is different to medical diagnosis

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1960’s

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Yale School - Theoretical thinking in nursing
*Focus on the relationship of the nurse and the patient
*Views nursing as process rather than an end itself.

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Holistic Approach

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5 aspects

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Curriculum era

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(1900’s-1940’s) emphasizes on courses included in nursing program
Goal: develop specialized knowledge and higher education

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Theory era

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(1980’s-1990’s) There are many ways to think about nursing
*Theories guide nursing research and practice.

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Research era

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(1950’s-1970’s) Role of nursing and what is research
*Recognition that isolated studiea do not yield unified knowledge

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Graduate Education era

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(1950’s-1970’s) Caving out an advanced roles and basis for nursing practice
*Focus graduate education on knowledge development

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Theory Utilization era

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(21st century) Nursing theory guides research, practice, education, and administration

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Science

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Body of knowledge based on facts
Method for describing, explaining, and predicting causes or outcomes of interventions

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Scientific Activity

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Helped to establish the evidence we use to guide practice in the delivery of nursing care

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scientific discipline

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Identifying nursing’s unique knowledge for the care of patients, families, and communities

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Rationalism

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makes use of reason
Hold that reason is the source of knowledge

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Rationalist epistomology

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Importance of priori reasoning
Uses of deductive reasoning/knowledge-general to specific

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Empiricisim

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origin of all knowledge is sensory experience, senses are the source of all knowledge
inductive reasoning- specific to general

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Empiricist

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Inductive reasoning must be used
-making generalization based on individual instances

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Reynolds

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Deductive method - Theory-then-research method
Inductive method - Research-then-theory method

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Science theory (early 20th century)

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Positivism-supports empirical research and logical analysis were approaches that would produce scientific knowledge
logical empiricist-Theoretical propositions must be tested through observation and experimentation

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Emergent Views (Late 20th century)

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Foucault-Believes that empirical knowledge was arranged in different patterns at a given time and in a given culture and that humans were emerging as objects of study

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Brown (1997)

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History of science was replacing formal logic as the major analytical tool in the philosophy of science

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Significance of nursing theories

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Nursing was recognized as an academic discipline and a profession

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Discipline

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refers to branch of education

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Profession

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A special field of practice

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Significance of theory in discipline of nursing

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discipline is dependent on theory for its continued existence

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Significance of nursing theory for the profession

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Vital for the practice of professional nursing

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Structure level

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Theoretical works in nursing are generally categorized either as philosophies, conceptual models, theories, or middle-ranged theories depending on the level of abstraction

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Concept

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Describes a phenomenon or a group of phenomena
Empirical concept- either observed or experience through senses
Abstract concept- one that is not observable

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Highest level of abstraction

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Metaparadigm

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Metaparadigm of nursing

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Person
Environment
Health
Nursing
these identified either implicitly or explicitly in each model or theories

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Philosophies of Nursing

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Set forth the general meaning of nursing and nursing phenomena through reasoning and the logical presentation of ideas.

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Conceptual Models of nursing

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Paradigms/framework
composed of abstract and general concepts
sets of concepts and statements
Assumptions-accepted as truth and proposition-statement about a concepts

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Nursing Theories

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A conceptualized of some aspect of reality that pertains to nursing. the conceptualization is articulated for the purpose of describing, explaining, predicting or prescribing nursing care

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Martha Rogers

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“Theoretical basis of nursing” 1970
“Nursing Science and an art; a prospective”
“Nursing science of unitary irreducible unitary human beings”

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Basic Characteristics that describe the basic life processes

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  1. Energy field - process, movement, and change
  2. Openness - no boundaries or barriers
  3. Pattern - abstraction that gives identity to the field
  4. Pan dimensionality - parameters in language
  5. Homedynamic Principles
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Major Assumptions of Roger’s

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Person- continuous process with open system
Environment- Fields coexist and integral
Health- Health and illness are parts of the same continuum
Nursing- Two dimension

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Critical Thinking Roger’s

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Pattern Appraisal - Self reflection
Mutual patterning - patterning activities
Evaluation - Personal appraisal

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Critique (Roger’s)

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Clarity - continue to demonstrate clarity
Simplicity - explain nature om man and life processes
generality - abstract, Generalizable and powerful
accessibility - Deductive in logic
Importance - utilized in numerous nursing researchers

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Dorothea Orem

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“self-care Deficit”

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Imogene King

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Theory of Goal Attainment

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