NURS303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Nursing Theory, Health System, Nursing Process
15 Dec 2017
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Chapter 5 theoretical foundation of nursing practice. Since the 1960s, scientific knowledge has proliferated across all disciplines. Nursing science is drawn from and contributed to developments in health sciences, basic physical sciences, social and bio-behavioural sciences, social theory, ethical theory, and the philosophy of science. Conceptual frameworks: organized core nursing concepts and proposed relationships among these above concepts: used to make sense of the information and decisional processes that nurses needed to apply knowledge to nursing practice. The building of nursing models was an attempt to theorize how all nurses might be taught to organize and synthesize knowledge about nursing so that they would develop advanced clinical reasoning skills. Grand theory: global, conceptual framework that provides insight into abstract phenomena, such as human behaviour or nursing science. Middle-range theory: address specific phenomena or concepts and reflect practice (administration, clinical, or teaching)
