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NURS246 Nursing TheoryWhat are theories? - ANS-Theories are specific and concrete concepts and propositions that
purport to account for or organize some phenomenon.
The metaparadigm for nursing focuses on what 4 concepts? - ANS-human beings, environment,
health, and nursing
Define philosophy - ANS-your state of beliefs or values
Define conceptual framework - ANS-a collection of interrelated concepts that provides direction
for nursing practice, research, and education
List the components of the nursing metaparadigm - ANS-person, environment, health, and
nursing
What represents a group of concepts that can be tested in practice and can be derived from a
conceptual model? - ANS-nursing theory
Grand theories - ANS-Nursing theories consisting of a global conceptual framework that defines
broad perspectives for nursing practice and provides ways of looking at nursing phenomena
from a distinct nursing viewpoint?
Theories that are big and define key concepts - ANS-grand theories
Theories that are more narrowly focused, specific, and concrete - ANS-middle-range theories
Middle-range theories - ANS-Moderately abstract and has a limited number of variables; more
concrete and narrowly focused on a specific condition or population than are grand theories
Nursing theories are frameworks for what? - ANS-practice, education, and research
Why are nursing theories important? - ANS-They provide the framework for practice, education,
and research.
Developed the theory that nurses manipulate the environment to promote health -
ANS-Nightingale
What were the 5 essential components of environmental health in Nightingale's theory? -
ANS-pure air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light (additionally: warmth, quiet,
diet, and variety)
, Developed the Philosophy of Transpersonal Caring--Science of Caring - ANS-Jean Watson
What does the philosophy of transpersonal caring theory state - ANS-through caring behaviors,
nurses assist patients to attain unity and harmony within the mind, body, and soul
Which theory was based on altruistic/humanistic values with a holistic focus? - ANS-Philosophy
of transpersonal caring
Who defined health as "unity and harmony within the mind, body, and soul"? - ANS-Jean
Watson (Philosophy of transpersonal caring)
Who's theory included the 10 Caritas Processes as a directing factor of nursing care? -
ANS-Jean Watson (Philosophy of transpersonal caring)
Which theorist focused on intentionality and holistic care? - ANS-Jean Watson (Philosophy of
transpersonal caring)
Developed the Self-Care Deficit Theory - ANS-Dorothea Orem
What was Jean Watson's nursing theory? - ANS-Philosophy of transpersonal caring
What was Dorothea Orem's nursing theory? - ANS-Self-Care Deficit Theory
Which nursing theory stated that nurses support their patients so patients can maintain
self-care? - ANS-Self-Care Deficit Theory (Orem)
Which nurse theorist defined nursing as deliberate actions helping patients meet their
therapeutic self-care demands and develop the patient's self-care agency? - ANS-Dorothea
Orem (Self-Care Deficit Theory)
Developed the Adaptation Model - ANS-Sister Callista Roy
What did Sister Callista Roy develop? - ANS-Adaptation Model
Who's theory stated that nurses help the patient adapt to changes in physiological needs,
self-concept, role function, and interdependent relations during health and illness? -
ANS-Adaptation Model (Roy)
Who believed that people have needs withing the physiological---physical mode,
self-concept/group identity mode, role function mode, and interdependence mode? - ANS-Sister
Callista Roy (Adaptation Model)
Who believed that nurses have to help patients adapt to and navigate stressors? - ANS-Sister
Callista Roy (Adaptation Model)
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