TFN Flashcards
Who began to assume the great significance of providing a clean and healthy environment to achieve recovery of patients and continues up to present
Florence Nightlingale
Florence Nightingale served during what war
Crimean War
Historical Eras
Identify the Historical Era:
Major Question:
What curriculum content should nurses study to be nurses
Emphasis:
Courses included in nursing programs
Outcomes:
Standardized curricula for diploma programs
Emerging Goal:
Develop specialized knowledge and higher education
Curriculum Era 1900 to 1940
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Major Question:
What is the focus for nursing research?
Emphasis:
Role of nurses and what to research
Outcomes:
Problem studies and studies of nurses
Emerging Goal:
Isolated studies do not yield unified knowledge
Research Era 1950 to 1970
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Major Question:
What knowledge is needed for the practice of nursing
Emphasis:
Carving out an advanced role and basis for nursing practice
Outcomes:
Nurses have an important role in health care
Emerging Goal:
Focus graduate education on knowledge development
Graduate Education Era 1950 to 1970
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Major Question:
How do these frameworks guide research practice?
Emphasis:
There are many ways to think about nursing
Outcomes:
Nursing theoretical works shift focus to the patient
Emerging Goal:
Theories guide nursing research and practice
Theory Era 1980 to 1990
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Major Question:
What new theories are needed to produce evidence of quality care?
Emphasis:
Nursing theory guides research, practice, education, and administration
Outcomes:
Middle-range theory may be from quantitative or qualitative approaches
Emerging Goal:
Nursing frameworks produce knowledge for quality care
Theory Utilization Era 21st Century
Identify whether the statement is Nursing as a Discipline or Profession:
Specific to academia and refers to a branch of
education, a department of learning or a domain of
knowledge
Discipline
Identify whether the statement is Nursing as a Discipline or Profession:
Discipline or Profession:
Refers to a specialized field of practice founded on the
theoretical structure of the science or knowledge of the
discipline and accompanying practice abilities.
Profession
Identify whether the statement is Nursing as a Discipline or Profession:
Branch of education; theoretical works leading to higher
level of education and practice.
Discipline
Identify whether the statement is Nursing as a Discipline or Profession:
Functional Focus (what nurses do) – knowledge
focus or what nurses know and how they use them for
thinking and decision making while taking care of a
patient. (example: Nursing)
Discipline
Identify whether the statement is Nursing as a Discipline or Profession:
Knowledge of persons, health and environment forms
the basis for nursing as a discipline
Discipline
Identify whether the statement is Nursing as a Discipline or Profession:
Knowledge of that discipline and accompanying
practice abilities.
Profession
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Kuhn – stated, “the study of paradigms is what mainly
prepares the student for membership in a particular
scientific community with which he / she will practice.
By studying and practicing with them, the clients or
community involved learn their trade.
Discipline
Identify whether the statement is Nursing as a Discipline or Profession:
Recognition and respect for their scholarly disciplined
contribution to the health of society
Profession
Meaning knowledge, understanding. Concerned with the theory of knowledge in philosophical inquiry or how knowledge came to be
Epistemology
Identify whether the statement is Rationalism or Empiricism:
Way of looking at reality using the five senses.
Empiricism
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Prior reasoning- utilizes deductive: cause to effect or general to particular
Rationalism
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An object is real in so far as seen, felt, smelled, tasted, heard
Empiricism
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Use of the rational senses in ensuring the truthfulness of a phenomenon
Rationalism
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A theory which states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
Empiricism
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Understand the whole first before you can appreciate the lesser parts
Rationalism
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Knowledge is based on experience
Empiricism
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Gather information more and observe facts before finally saying a theory exists
Empiricism
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Regards reason as the chief reason as the chief source and test of knowledge
Rationalism
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Any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification
Rationalism
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Criterion of truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive
Rationalism
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Reynolds Research-then-theory strategy
Empiricism
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is inductive
Empiricism
Statements in a theory may state definitions or relations among concepts
Relational statements
Relate concepts to one another permit analysis
Theoretical Statements
Relate concepts to measurements
Operational Statements
Are simple, true, universal and absolute
Scientific Laws