Nursing 1060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nanda, Al-Lat, Grand Theory
31 Jan 2017
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Nursing practice is a unique body of knowledge with a set of principles. Nursing theory: aims to organize knowledge about nursing to enable nurses to use it in a professional and accountable manner. Modern nursing is attributed to florence nightingale (victorian england, crimean war) Status of nursing has paralleled authority of women. 1960s; knowledge about nursing has drawn and contributed from developments in health sciences, basic physical sciences, social/ behavioural sciences, social theory, ethical theory, philosophy. Traditional ways of preparing professional nurses were becoming outdates. Orla(cid:374)do"s de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as the nursing process. The plan success or failure is judged. It represented a continuous, rapid, cycling of info. Nursing process was widely accepted because it was logical. Currently, terms such as clinical judgement and critical thinking are used. Later theorists thought it was too linear and rigid. Determine key bodies of knowledge that need to understand particular clinical situations.
