Nursing Theory Evolution Flashcards
It is an organized, coherent, and systematic articulation of a set of statements related to significant questions in a discipline that are communicated in the meaningful whole, discovered, or invented for describing, predicting events or relationships.
Theory
Aspect of reality that can be consciously sensed or experienced
Phenomenon
Accepted as truth and represent the values and beliefs of theory
Assumptions
Statement about a concept or of relation between two or more concept
Preposition
Beliefs and values that define a way of thinking and are generally known and understood by a group or discipline
Philosophy
The building blocks of theories
Concept
Representations of the interaction among and between the concepts showing patterns
Models
It is a group of related ideas, statements, or concepts
Conceptual Framework
Perspective or territory of a profession or discipline
Domain
This explains the linkages of science, philosophy, and theory. It is also the pattern of shared understanding and assumptions about reality and the world.
Paradigm
The most general statement of discipline and functions as a framework in which more restricted structures of conceptual models develop.
Metaparadigm
What are the 4 metaparadigms?
Person, Health, Environment, and Nursing
The attributes, characteristics, and actions of the nurse providing care.
Nursing
The degree of wellness of the client
Health
The recipient of nursing care
Person
The internal and external surrounds that affects the client
Environment
This varies in accordance with their orientation, nursing experience, and different factors that affect the theorist’s view.
Nurse theorist’s definition
What are the nursing theory purpose?
- Explains
- Describes
- Predicts
- Prescribes
This type of theory does not prescribe actions provide structural framework
Grand theories
This more helpful in nursing practice because it is narrower focus, more precise, and focus on developing theoretical statements to answer question about nursing.
Middle-range theories