Week 2 Flashcards
something that is seen happening or existing .
fact
an abstraction based on observation of certain behaviors or characteristics.
concept
an image or formulation of something imagined and visualized, of something vaguely assumed, guessed or sensed out of related facts or observations
idea
set of interrelated concepts that serve as building blocks of theories.
conceptual framework
3 concept of being a teenager
concept of growing, personality, physiological process
a statement of predicted
Relationships between two or more variables,
subjected to testing in empirical studies
hypothesis
basic principles that are accepted as being true on the basis of logic or reason without proof or verification
assumption
a formal statement that is constructed
in order to organize ideas & explain event
theory
an organized and systematic articulation of a set of statements related to questions in the discipline
nursing theory
a set of interrelated
theories that organizes the direction of a
research endeavor/scientific inquiry
theoretical framework
6 components of a theory
purpose, concepts & definitions, theoretical statements, structure & linkage, assumptions, model
the periodic recurrence of permanent, pervasive sadness or other grief related feelings associated with ongoing disparity resulting from a loss experience
chronic sorrow
a significant loss, either actual or symbolic, that may be ongoing, with no predictable end, or a more circumscribed single-loss event
loss experience
3 purposes of nursing theory
in education, research, clinical practice
-owes much of its research-orientedness to the systematic works of Florence Nightingale
nursing as science
