THEORETICAL FOUNDATION IN NURSING Flashcards
a system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given phenomenon.
A creative and rigorous structuring of ideas that project a tentative
A systematic way of viewing facts or events by specifying relation of variables with the purpose of explaining facts or events
nursing for the purpose pf describing, explaining, predicting, or prescribing nursing care.
Develop analytical skills and critic thinking ability
It specifies the main concepts: person, health, environment, and nursing
Patterns used to show a clear relationship among the existing theoretical works in nursing
Is a critic examination of the grounds for fundamentals beliefs and analysis
Nursing philosophy is a framework providing a reference for nurses to guide their thinking, observations, interpretations, and practices
Building blocks of theory
independent of time for place and they are indirectly observable
Building blocks of theory
re specific to time and place and are observable
Representations of an idea or body of knowledge based on the theorists understanding of a phenomere specific to time and place and are observable
It is a body of knowledge concerned with specific subject matter and the processes necessary
- Expertise and skills acquired by a person through experience
- The theoretical or practical understanding of a subject
- It is confident understanding of a subject
a set of data or experience that can physically observed or tangible
A set of interrelated concepts, definitions and propositions
hospital practice to connect the gaps, to build experience
- Prepare the student for membership in a community that will be used in the future to practice
- It provides systematic perspective of the patient the environment, in which nursing takes place, healing
- Appropriate use of theory guide and structure the Nursing Curriculum
- Help nursing students learn the Nursing Process
Prepare student nurses for their professional practice
- Provide basis for Professional Nursing Practice
- Enhance Autonomy of nursing through defining its own Independent Function
- Focus on caring management
- Provides rationale for collecting reliable and valid data of clients’ health stayed
- Serves as guide assessment
- Analytical and critical thinking that directs nursing
- Assist nurses to describe explain predict everyday
- Offers a systematic approach to identify question for study, select variables
- Assist in discovering knowledge
- Offers a framework for generating knowledge
the most global perspective of the nursing discipline by identifying
conceptual framework that defines broad perspective for nursing practice
moderately abstract and has a limited number of variables