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Nursing Theory Conce
ch 3 and 20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cognitive Development | the manner in which people lear to think, reasoe, and language |
| Development | an individuals increasing capacity and skill in functioning related to growth |
| Developmental Stage | level of achievement for a particular segment of a persons life |
| Developmental Task | skill or behavior pattern learned during stages of development |
| Ego | includes consciousness and memeory, which serve to mediate between primitive instictual drives internal ocial prohibithins, and reality |
| Evidence Based Practice | the use of some form of substation in making clinical decisions |
| Grand Theory | a broad range of the siginificant relationships among the concepts of a discipline |
| Theory | a system of ideas presumed to explain a given phenomenon. build on or modify previous theorues |
| Midlevel Theory | focus on exploration of concepts such as pain, selfesteem, learning, and hardiness |
| Practice Discipline | filed of study in whicht the central focus is performance of professional role |
| Health | the degree of wellness or wellbeing a patient experiences |
| Nursing | the attributes, charachteristics, and actions of the nurse providing care on behalf, or in conjuction with the patient |
| Conceptual Framework | group of related ideas, statements, or concepts |
| Paradigm | refers to a pattern of shared understandings and assumptions about reality and the world |
| Concepts | ofen called the "building blocks" of theory |
| Moral | relating to right and wrong |
| Moral Behavior | the way a person perceives the requreiemt necessary for people to live together and how they respond to them |
| Moral Development | process of learning to tell the difference between right and wrong and learing what should and should not be done |
| Morality | a doctrine or system denoting what is right and wrond in conduct, charachter, and attiude |
| Metaparadigm | with pattern for concepts central to Nursing patient Enviorment Health Nursing |