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| What is Nursing? | A do, feel, think, create, assess, evaluate, reevaluate, and advocate caring profession |
| What does the discipline of nursing consist of? | Community of scholars, nurses from all specialties, who share common values, knowledge, technological know-how, and procedural processes |
| What does the Art of Nursing mean to you? | Empathy, understanding, customization, creative thinking |
| What does the domain of nursing include? | Phenomena of interest, main content, methods used and role assignment of the discipline's members |
| What does the metaparadigm of nursing consist of? | 1.) Nursing; 2.) Patient or Person; 3.) Environment; 4.) Health |
| What are the specific qualities seen in the domain of the nursing discipline? | 1.) Life sustaining principles for the sick or well; 2.) Patterns of human behavior; 3.) Process changes resulting in optimal health status for patients |
| What does Nursing theory do for nursing? | Creates a structure to organize knowledge and illuminate nursing practice. Also help provide the basis for nursing education and framework for nursing curricula |
| What do syntactical structures do for nursing? | Help nurses and other health professionals to understand the talents, skills, and abilities to be developed |
| What do conceptual structures do for nurses? | Relate nursing concepts to nursing theories |
| So, what exactly is a nursing theory | A proven idea that links concepts together to explain an experience, observation, relationship, or projected outcome. Theories are human inventions that guide the thinking about, being, and doing of nursing |
| Main reason for structuring nursing knowledge | To further develop and understand nursing practice |
| What does the Science of Nursing mean to you? | diagnostic testing, lab values, critical thinking, standard practice, evidence-based practice |
| What kind of thinking is required to understand nursing theory? | Reflective, critical thinking, creative reasoning |
| Florence Nightingale | Mother of Modern Nursing. Wrote What Nurses Are and What They Are Not |
| Evolution of Nursing theory from | Task-oriented to Patient-centric care |
| What is a paradigm? | A global or worldview framework made up of assumptions of the discipline |
| Totality paradigm | Humans are integrated beings with biological, psychological, socio-cultural, and spiritual dimensions. Holistic nursing. Cause-and-effect nursing care. |
| Simultaneity paradigm | Humans are unitary, irreducible, and continuously interact with their environment. |
| Another name for Grand theories | Conceptual models, composed of concepts and relational statements (also known as Assumptions) |
| What do Conceptual models (also known as Grand theories) focus on? | The phenomena of concern to the discipline; i.e., self-care, unitary human beings, caritas factors, etc. |
| What are Middle-Range Theories? | Middle Range theories are narrower in scope than Grand Theories and are often appropriate for empirical testing |
| Practice-level theories | Have a more direct effect on nursing practice than more abstract nursing theories; also known as bedside theories; directly relevant to nursing practice |
| Latest Grand theory developed in last 20 years | Dossey's theory of Integral Nursing - (I, It, Its, We theory, p. 220 in theory textbook) |
