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Pretest Module 6F Concept of Nursing Flashcards

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– a system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given
phenomenon; well-articulated idea about something important; describe, predict and control phenomena.

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THEORY

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A conceptualization of some aspect of
nursing communicated for the purpose of describing, explaining,
predicting, and/or prescribing CARE (Meleis, 1997).

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Nursing Theory

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-guides knowledge development and directs:
-NURSING EDUCATION - Used primarily to establish the profession’s place in the university
-NURSING RESEARCH - Identifies gaps in the way we approach specific fields of study.
-CLINICAL PRACTICE – the reflection, questioning, and thinking about what nurses do.

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importance of a nursing theory includes the following:

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a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as
the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.

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PRINCIPLE

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a belief system and serves as basis for theoretical formulations.

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PHILOSOPHY

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consistency, semantic, and structural clarity

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CLEAR

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sufficiently comprehensive and at a level of abstraction provides guidance.

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SIMPLE

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  • mental formulations of an object or event that come from individual perceptual experience.
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CONCEPT

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Convey the general meaning of the concepts in manner that fits the theory; measures the constructs, relationships or variables within a theory.

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DEFINITION

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Statements that describe concepts or connect two concepts that are factual. Determine the nature of
the concepts, definitions, purpose, relationships and structure of the theory.

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ASSUMPTIONS

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Aspect of reality that can be consciously sensed or experience

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PHENOMENON

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explains the linkages of science, philosophy, and theory accepted and applied by the discipline.

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THE NURSING PARADIGM

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the recipient of nursing care.

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PERSON

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the goal of nursing care.

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HEALTH

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all possible conditions affecting the client and the setting in which health care needs occur.

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ENVIRONMENT

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diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems (ANA,1995)

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NURSING

17
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grand theories or middle-range theories.

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LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION

18
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descriptive or prescriptive.

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GOALS OF THE THEORY

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Broad in scope and complex, require further
specification through research before they can be
fully tested.

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GRAND THEORIES

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Describe the phenomena, speculate on why the phenomena occur, and describe the consequences of the phenomena

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DESCRIPTIVE THEORIES

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More limited scope, less abstraction, address specific phenomena or concept and reflect practice (administration, clinical or teaching).

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MIDDLE RANGE THEORIES

21
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predict the consequences of a specific nursing intervention.

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PRESCRIPTIVE THEORIES

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ASSERTIONS: Disease was a
reparative process; disease was nature’s effort to remedy a process of poisoning or decay, or a reaction against the conditions in which a person was placed.

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THEORETICAL ASSERTIONS:

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Human systems have thinking and feeling capacities rooted in consciousness and meaning; adjust effectively to changes in the environment and in turn affect the environment

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PERSON

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Conditions, circumstances and
influences surrounding and affecting the development and behavior of persons or groups, with consideration of the mutuality of person and health resources

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ENVIRONMENT

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is not freedom from the
inevitability of death, disease, unhappiness, and
stress, but the ability to cope with them in a
competent way.

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HEALTH

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is the promotion
of adaptation for individuals and groups in each of the four adaptive modes, thus contributing to health, quality of life, and dying with dignity.

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NURSING

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The “process and outcome
whereby thinking and feeling persons as individuals or in groups use conscious awareness and choice to create human and
environmental interaction.

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ADAPTATION

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Human Becoming is
co-creating rhythmical patterns of relating in mutual process with the universe. Man and environment co-create (imaging, valuing, language) in rhythmical patterns.

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RHYTHMICITY:

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Human Becoming is freely
choosing personal meaning in
situations in the intersubjective
process of living value priorities. Man’s reality is given meaning through lived experiences. Man and environment co-create.

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MEANING:

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