Week 4 The Development of Nursing Knolwedge Flashcards
Theoretical knowledge
Leads us to reflect on the basic values, guiding principles, elements & phases of a conception of Nursing
What is theory?
Purposeful set of assumptions or propositions
Mapping out theory
Starts with phenomenon (assumption or propositions)
Concepts
Definitions
Nursing process
Early theorists lacked ways to explain how nurses work with information
Provided logical steps for nurses
Nursing senses - used taste to figure out illnesses ( infants with cystic fibrosis have a salty taste
Metaparadigm concepts
Nursing “action”
Person
Environment (internal / external factors)
Health-defined by a person or communities)
they all come together on how we develop Nursing knowledge
Carper’s patterns of knowing
Empirical knowledge
Ethic knowledge
Person knowing
Ethical knowing
- 4 patterns of knowing ( all you need to know) *
Types of Nursing theory
- Just know that there are different types*
Percussion
Tapping / figuring out what’s happening with a patient without technology resources
NANDA
Nursing diagnoses
Betty Neuman systems theory
Looks @ different levels of stress
Been in place for a long time & can be applied to different types of patients & settings*
Theory & practice
Theory informs practice & practice informs theory
* both go hand in hand *
Practisis → when your in the middle between theory & practice
Theory informed by education & research
Ontology
What can we know about a particular experience
Epistemology
How do we know about a particular experience
Emancipatory Nursing
Addressing critical reflection, all nurses should consider this theory
→ shift that’s for moving forward
