Potter & Perry Ch. 4 Vocab Flashcards
Perspective of a profession. It provides the subject, central concepts, values and beliefs, phenomena of interest, and central problems of a discipline.
Domain
A pattern of thought that is useful in describing the domain of a discipline. It links the knowledge of science, philosophy, and theories accepted and applied by the discipline. It includes four links: the person, health, environment/situation, and nursing.
Paradigm
Direct the activity of the nursing profession, including knowledge development, philosophy, theory, educational experience, research, and practice.
Nursing Paradigm
The recipient of nursing care, including individual patients, groups, families, and communities.
Person
Has different meanings for each patient, the clinical setting, and the health care profession.
Health
Includes all possible conditions affecting patients and the settings in which their health care needs occur.
Environment/situation
The “…diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems…”
Nursing
A conceptualization of some aspect of nursing that describes, explains, predicts, or prescribes nursing care.
Nursing Theory
Contains a set of concepts, definitions, and assumptions or propositions that explain a phenomenon.
Theory
The term, description, or label given to describe an idea or responses about an event, a situation, a process, a group of events, or a group of situations.
Phenomenon
Can be simple or complex and relate to an object or event that comes from individual perceptual experiences.
Concepts
The “taken-for-granted” statements that explain the nature of the concepts, definitions, purpose, relationships, and structure of a theory.
Assumptions
Systematic and broad in scope, complex, and therefore require further specification through research.
Grand Theories
More limited in scope and less abstract than Grand Theories.
Middle-Range Theories
The first level of theory development. They describe phenomena, speculate on why they occur, and describe their consequences.
Descriptive Theories
Address nursing interventions for a phenomenon, describe the conditions under which the prescription (i.e., nursing interventions) occurs, and predict the consequences. Prescriptive theories are action oriented and test the validity and predictability of a nursing intervention.
Prescriptive Theories
Explains a systematic view of a phenomenon specific to the discipline of inquiry.
Interdisciplinary Theory
The data or information that comes from a patient’s assessment (e.g., how the patient inter- acts with the environment and the patient’s physiological function).
Input
The end product of a system; and in the case of the nursing process it is whether the patient’s health status improves, declines, or remains stable as a result of nursing care.
Output
Serves to inform a system about how it functions.
Feedback
The product and information obtained from the system.
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