NSE 11A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nursing Theory, Practice Theory, Grand Theory
20 Oct 2014
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Nursing theory: aims to organize knowledge about nursing to enable nurses to use it in a professional and accountable manner. Theory: a purposeful sets of assumptions or propositions that identify the relationships between concepts- explain, predict and prescribe phenomena. Logically interrelated set of concepts (2 or more concepts make a theory) Concept: mental formulation of objects or events, representing the basic way in which ideas are organized and communicated e. g. anxiety. Conceptual framework: theoretical structure that links concepts together for a specific reason; link nursing concepts and phenomena to direct nursing decisions. Used to organize concepts and relationships among them. Purpose is to guide decision-making in nursing practice and provides instructions of what to do. Image of roy"s adaptation model- person coping with stress- influenced by role functions, self-concept, interdependence. Description or analogy used to help visualize something that can"t be observed directly. Conceptual model: illustrates a phenomenon and explains functions, but it doesn"t tell you what to do.
