Knowing through inquiry - NURS2420 midterm (All answered Correctly)

What is a theory? correct answers formal consutrciton of knowledge, frameworks to organize and understand what we do/see Theory as a lens correct answers the theory filters out certain facts and gives a particular pattern to those it lets in Why does nursing theory matter? correct answers to be considered our own profession - unique body of knowledge Structure of Nursing Theory correct answers Metaparadigm - nursing, environment, health, person Paradigm - worldview Grand Theories & Conceptual Models Middle Range & Practice Level Theories Metaparadigm correct answers core focus, most abstract Person- holistic view or in separate parts, what defines the person Nursing - being, knowing, doin Environment - people & social structures compose environment, we are a product or separate of environment Health - absence of disease or individualized meaning of health Paradigm correct answers worldview/shared perspective Parse's 2 opposing perspectives: Totality & Simultaneity Totality Paradigm correct answers humans are integrated, sum of individual parts - parts can be treated separately and still work together - health and illness as a spectrum - humans adapt to environment Simultaneity Paradigm correct answers humans are unitary and irreducible - person is more than the sum of their parts - humans are continuous with environment Grand Theories/Conceptual Models correct answers conceptualizations of profession/practice - applies across broad range of practice settings - based off defining 4 metaparadigm concepts (person, health, environment, nursing) - not written anymore Middle Range & Practice Level Theories correct answers hella growing - derived from specific grand theory or day-day nursing experience