Week One Flashcards
Nursing Theory
Is a conceptualization of some aspect of nursing
Communicates the purpose of describing, explaining, predicting and/or prescribing nursing care.
Aims to organize knowledge about nursing and enables nurses to use it in a professional and accountable manner
Theory
Provides a systematic view for explaining, predicting, and prescribing phenomena
A purposeful set of assumptions or propositions that identify the relationships between concepts
Components of a Theory
Phenomenon
Concepts
Definitions
Assumptions
Kinds of Nursing Theory
Grand theory
Middle-ranged theory
Descriptive theory
Prescriptive theory
Major Theoretical Models
Practice-based theories
Needs theories
Interactionist Theories
Systems Theories
Simultaneity Theories
Four Metaparadigm Concepts
Client and person
Environment
Health
Nursing
Practice-Based Theorists
Florence Nightengale
The McGill Model
Needs Theoriests
Virginia Henderson
Dorothea Orem
Interactions Theorists
Hildegard Peplau
Joyce Travelbee
Evelyn Adam
Systems Theorists
Dorothy Johnson
The University of British Columbia Model
Betty Neuman
Sister Callista Roy
Simultaneity Theorists
Martha Rogers
Rosemary Parse
Jean Watson
First Bachelors of Nursing Program
University of British Columbia
First Laywoman to Nursing in New France
Marie Roller Hébert
Grey Nuns
First visiting nurses in Canada
Started as a group of women with charitable intentions
Les Soeurs Grises was a name with two meanings given to the nuns. The grey nuns after their robes with the double meaning of tipsy nuns
To meet expenses the nuns were innovative, running side businesses: making military uniforms and tents, a brewery, a tobacco plant, and a freight and cargo business
Florence Nightengale
Nurses during Crimean war
Had reductions in morbidity and mortality using cleanliness and comfort nursing.
Was first medical statistician, collecting and analyzing health data
