NSE 11A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Grand Theory, Scientific Method, Nursing Diagnosis
12 Sep 2016
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Critical social theory - oppression, everyone should have equal chances to succeed. Academic integrity - handbook and website, plagiarism, Metapardigm, theory, concepts, 4 types of theory: person, health, nursing, environment. Went from unregulated discipline to florence nightingale to handmaiden to apprentice to profession with unique scholarly knowledge base and defined scope of practice. Concept: - an idea that is conceived in out minds to represent the world around us mental images of reality. Usually abstract about what we can see, hear, feel and touch vs. concrete. Can also be about things we cannot sense such a spirit . Florences" theory a clean environment will help with recover . An intellectual tool used to explain the world we live in interrelates concepts in a way to create a different way of looking at a particular phenomenon logical in nature, use orderly reasoning and systematic. Can be bases for hypothesis to be tested.
