Pretest Module 6F Concept of Nursing Flashcards
– a system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given
phenomenon; well-articulated idea about something important; describe, predict and control phenomena.
THEORY
A conceptualization of some aspect of
nursing communicated for the purpose of describing, explaining,
predicting, and/or prescribing CARE (Meleis, 1997).
Nursing Theory
-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.
importance of a nursing theory includes the following:
a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as
the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.
PRINCIPLE
a belief system and serves as basis for theoretical formulations.
PHILOSOPHY
consistency, semantic, and structural clarity
CLEAR
sufficiently comprehensive and at a level of abstraction provides guidance.
SIMPLE
- mental formulations of an object or event that come from individual perceptual experience.
CONCEPT
Convey the general meaning of the concepts in manner that fits the theory; measures the constructs, relationships or variables within a theory.
DEFINITION
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.
ASSUMPTIONS
Aspect of reality that can be consciously sensed or experience
PHENOMENON
explains the linkages of science, philosophy, and theory accepted and applied by the discipline.
THE NURSING PARADIGM
the recipient of nursing care.
PERSON
the goal of nursing care.
HEALTH
all possible conditions affecting the client and the setting in which health care needs occur.
ENVIRONMENT
diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems (ANA,1995)
NURSING
grand theories or middle-range theories.
LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION
descriptive or prescriptive.
GOALS OF THE THEORY
Broad in scope and complex, require further
specification through research before they can be
fully tested.
GRAND THEORIES
Describe the phenomena, speculate on why the phenomena occur, and describe the consequences of the phenomena
DESCRIPTIVE THEORIES
More limited scope, less abstraction, address specific phenomena or concept and reflect practice (administration, clinical or teaching).
MIDDLE RANGE THEORIES
predict the consequences of a specific nursing intervention.
PRESCRIPTIVE THEORIES
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.
THEORETICAL ASSERTIONS:
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
PERSON
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
ENVIRONMENT
is not freedom from the
inevitability of death, disease, unhappiness, and
stress, but the ability to cope with them in a
competent way.
HEALTH
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.
NURSING
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.
ADAPTATION
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.
RHYTHMICITY:
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.
MEANING:
