Unb Metaparadigm Flashcards
What is the conceptual NUrsing Models?
core nursing concepts and proposed relationships
“mental maps” to make sense of the information and decision nurses needed to apply to nursing practice
Links concept together
“Nursing models” or “nursing theories”
How nurses systematically organize general knowledge about nursing to understand an individual patients situation and determine strategies that would restore health & prevent dis
What are the 4 segments of the conceptual nursing model? From general to more specific?
Metaparadigm
grand theory
middle-range theory
descriptive theory & prescriptive theory
What is grand theory?
“Paradigm”
Distinct world views about abstract concepts, such as human behaviour or nursing science.
broad in scope
application for research should not be tested
Represent distinct work views
structural framework within which narrower-range theories can be developed and tested
Shaped by philosophies
What is mid-range theories?
Less comprehensive viewpoint:
Addresses specific concepts that reflect practice and cross different nursing fields
Encompasses a limited scope and less abstract
What is descriptive and prescriptive theories?
Situation-specific, narrow viewpoints
Single concrete concept that describes and prescribes practice
Addresses nursing interventions and helps predict the consequences of a specific intervention
designate the prescription, the condition the prescription should occur, and consequences
action oriented and test specific nursing interventions
What is a meta-paradigm?
a holistic and multidimensional view of nursing.
guides the educational and the practice
understood as dynamic, interrelated, and continuing in space and time
nursing, environment, health, person, and nursing
What is a paradigm?
actual world views
What are the 6 points of the metaparadigm of health?
Health Actualization?
Optimal health?
a state and a dynamic process
physical, cognitive, affective, social, sexual, spiritual and sexual well being
a resource and a goal
Idefined by culture, beliefs, and values
A continuous unfolding of human potential
Health actualization is the balance of internal and external factors
Optimal health balance of complex internal and external factors
What is WHO definition of Health?
extent to which an individual or group is able to
to realize aspirations and satisfy health needs
change or cope with the environment
Health is therefore seen as a resource of everyday life, not the objective of living
it is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities
What are the positive aspects of health?
health and illness are viewed as distinct interrelated concepts
A person in the positive view of health can have a disease, such as a chronic illness and still have healthy characteristics
What are the negative aspects of health?
absence of disease, health , and illness
maximum health at one end and death at the other
What are the 6 points of the metaparadigm of environment
key to primary health care
Environments persons and health are inter-connected and inter-dependent
Each environment is uniquely perceived and experienced and created
External environmental factors include physical, ecological, global, economic, socio-political, affective, and culture, etc.
Internal environmental factors include values, beliefs, attitudes, genetics, personality, moods, physiological states, etc.
Environments can be nurturing or toxic
Concept of person has 4 points. What are they?
A holistic being; a dynamic, interacting, irreducible whole
individuals, families, aggregates, communities, or populations
unique and represents diversity in:
Age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, socioeconomic status, lifestyle, values, functional ability
P ability to adjust and grow; self-determining, actively involved in their own health
What is UNB’s definition of nursing?
Nursing is an academic discipline and practice based profession whose socially-sanctioned mandate includes 6 points
What are the 6 points/parts if UNB’s nursing concept?
Helping persons meet their health and illness needs
enhancing a persons capacity to manage health challenges
Promoting health and wellbeing at both individual and societal level
Providing health care to persons who are unable to do so for themselves
Assisting persons in their response to illness or threats to health
Facilitating transitions
