Question | Answer |
What is Domain? | The perspective of a profession
Provides practical and theoretical orientations for a discipline |
What is a Paradigm? | Links Science, philosophy, and theories |
What does a Theory do? | It explains a phenomenon. |
What is the Nursing Theory? | A conceptualization of some aspect of nursing.
It communicates the purpose of describing, explaining, predicting, and prescribing nursing care. |
What are the components of a theory? | Phenomenon- Concepts- Definitions- Assumptions |
What are the types of theory? | Grand, Middle-range, Descriptive, Prescriptive |
What is the relationship of theories to nursing? | Generate nursing knowledge for use in practice.
Can direct how to use nursing process
Are adaptable to different clients and all care settings |
What are the interdisciplinary theories? | Systems, Basic human needs(Maslow), Developmental, Psychosocial |
Florence Nightingale | Through observation and data collection, she linked the clients health status with environmental factors and initiated improved hygiene and sanitary conditions during the Crimean War. |
Name and describe Nightingale's theory | Descriptive theory- Provides the nurses with a way to think about clients and their environments |
Orem's Self-Care Theory Consist of 3 Steps | Step 1: determine why a patient needs care.
Step 2: design a nursing system & plan the delivery of care
Step 3: management of nursing systems- planning, initiating, & controlling nursing actions. |
King's Goal Attainment Theory | - A conceptual model
-Goals are met thru transaction
-Three Systems: Personal, interpersonal, social |
Watson- Human Caring Theory | Holistic. Nursing is the contact and the bond between two individuals. |
Major Elements of Human Caring Theory | -Carative Factors
-Transperonal caring relationship
-The caring occasion/caring moment |
Betty Nueman- Systems Theory | Health is seen as occurring on a continuum, health---illness
The client is an open system seeking balance and harmony.
Goal for nursing is a stable client system |
The link between theory and knowledge development | -Nursing knowledge is theoretical and practical
-Theories provide direction to nursing research
-Nursing theory and nursing research build nursing knowledge base. |