Tfn Introduction Flashcards
Envisioned nurses as a body of educated women at a time when women were neither educated or employed in public service
Florence nightingale
Marked the birth of modern nursing and the school of nursing
St. Thomas hospital in london
Marked the birth of modern nursing and the school of nursing
St. Thomas hospital in london
Courses included in nursing programs
Curriculum era
Roles of nurses and what to research
Research era
Carving out an advanced role and basis for nursing practice
Graduate education era
There are many ways to think about nursing
Theory era
Nursing theory guides research practice education and administration
Theory utilization era
an organized system of accepted knowledge that is composed of concepts, propositions, definitions, and assumptions, intended to explain a set of fact event or phenomena
Theory
An idea formulated by the mind or experience perceived and observed
Concept
Can be abstract or concrete
Concept
Explains the relationship of different concepts
Proposition
Composed of various descriptions which convey a general meaning and reduces the vagueness in understanding a set of concepts
Definition
A statement that specifies the relationship or connection of factual concepts and phenomena
Assumption
An observable fact that can be perceived through the senses and explained
Phenomena