Nursing 1060A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter week 10: Paradigm Shift, Conceptual Framework, Operational Definition
22 Oct 2017
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Potter, a. g. perry, j: ross-kerr, & m. j. wood (eds. ), canadian fundamentals of nursing. (5 th ed. pp. Nursing theory aims to organize knowledge about nursing to enable nurses to use in a professional and accountable manner. Nursing theories are not generally propositional, they reflect a concept you lies a shin of nursing for the purpose of describing, explaining, predicting, or prescribing care. Nursing theories provide nurses with the perspective from which to view client situations, a way to organize data and a method of analyzing and interpreting information to bring about coherent and informed nursing practice. Early nursing practice and the emergence of theory. Contemporary scholars consider florence nightingale"s work as an early theoretical and conceptual model for nursing. Her descriptive theory provided nurses with the way to think about nursing practice and a frame of reference that focuses on patients and the environment.
