OVERVIEW OF NURSING Flashcards
Something that is seen happening or existing
● An empirical observation
FACT
● a group of interrelated facts
● a person’s conception of what is the best example
of something
IDEA
A word or cluster of words describing an object,
idea or even
CONCEPT
○ specific to time and place
○ observable
Concrete/Empirical concept.
○ independent of time or place
○ indirectly observable/not observable
Abstract concepts
set of interrelated concepts that serve as building
blocks of theories
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
a statement of predicted relationships between two or more variables, subjected to testing in empirical studies
HYPOTHESIS
basic principles that are accepted as being true on
the basis of logic or reason without proof or
verification
ASSUMPTION
a formal statement that is constructed in order to
organize ideas explain event
THEORY
an organized and systematic
articulation of a set of statements related to questions
in the discipline
NURSING THEORY
a set of interrelated theories that organizes the
direction of a research endeavor/ scientific inquiry
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
COMPONENTS OF A THEORY
PURPOSE
CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS
THEORETICAL STATEMENTS
STRUCTURES AND LINKAGES
ASSUMPTIONS
MODELS
Theory clarifies the central meanings and
improves the status of the profession.
Purpose of Nursing Theories IN EDUCATION
Theory sets limits on what questions to ask and
what methods to use to pursue answers to the
questions
Purpose of Nursing Theories IN RESEARCH
To guide research and Provides the nurse with goals for assessment, diagnosis, and intervention.
Purpose of Nursing Theories IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
Florence Nightingale Birth & Death
May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910
Nursing Eras
“Curriculum Era”
“Research Era”
“Theory Era”
Nursing as “academic discipline”
“nursing knowledge was distinct from
medical knowledge”
Florence Nightingale in 1800
emergence of nursing as a science
1950
research revealed that nursing lacked
conceptual connections & theoretical
framework
1970
nursing theory was developed
1980
patterns or models used to show a clear relationship among the existing theoretical works in nursing
NURSING PARADIGM
global perspective of a discipline that identifies the
primary phenomena of interest to that discipline and explains how the discipline deals with those
phenomena in a unique manner
METAPARADIGM
embodies the knowledge base, theory, philosophy,
research, practice, and educational experience and
literature identified with the profession.
NURSING METAPARADIGM
