Elscores: Tuesday, 20 August 2024
NUR 302 - Final Exam
Questions and Correct
Answer
Metatheory
✓ :-- theory about theory;
✓ looks at the relationships of various components that make up the knowledge of a
discipline
Nursing Theory
✓ :-- conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain, predict, or prescribe
nursing care
Components of a theory
✓ :-- -Phenomenon
✓ -Concepts
✓ -Definitions
✓ -Assumptions
Domain
✓ :-- comprehensive perspective
Paradigm
✓ :-- pattern of beliefs
Conceptual Framework
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✓ :-- organizes major concepts and visualizes relationships
Nursing Metaparadigm
✓ :-- person, environment, health, nursing
First nursing theorist
✓ :-- Florence Nightingale
the reason we're in this mess
theories are
✓ :-- dynamic and responsive to the changing environment in which we live
Grand theory
✓ :-- abstract, broad in scope, and complex
middle-range theory
✓ :-- limited in scope and less abstract
practice theory
✓ :-- narrow in scope and focus
descriptive theory
✓ :-- describe phenomena and identify circumstances in which phenomena occur
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prescriptive theory
✓ :-- address nursing interventions for a phenomenon, guide practice change, and
predict the consequences
most abstract theory
✓ :-- metatheory
least abstract theory
✓ :-- practice theory
Nightingale's Environmental Theory
✓ :-- Environment as the focus of nursing care
**Grand theory**
Peplau's Interpersonal Theory
✓ :-- Focus on interpersonal relations between nurse, patient, and patient's family
Phases: preorientation, orientation, working, resolution
**Middle-range theory**
Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory
✓ :-- Focuses on patient's self-care needs
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NUR 302 - Final Exam
Questions and Correct
Answer
Metatheory
✓ :-- theory about theory;
✓ looks at the relationships of various components that make up the knowledge of a
discipline
Nursing Theory
✓ :-- conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain, predict, or prescribe
nursing care
Components of a theory
✓ :-- -Phenomenon
✓ -Concepts
✓ -Definitions
✓ -Assumptions
Domain
✓ :-- comprehensive perspective
Paradigm
✓ :-- pattern of beliefs
Conceptual Framework
DO NOT COPY AND PASTE!!
, Elscores: Tuesday, 20 August 2024
✓ :-- organizes major concepts and visualizes relationships
Nursing Metaparadigm
✓ :-- person, environment, health, nursing
First nursing theorist
✓ :-- Florence Nightingale
the reason we're in this mess
theories are
✓ :-- dynamic and responsive to the changing environment in which we live
Grand theory
✓ :-- abstract, broad in scope, and complex
middle-range theory
✓ :-- limited in scope and less abstract
practice theory
✓ :-- narrow in scope and focus
descriptive theory
✓ :-- describe phenomena and identify circumstances in which phenomena occur
DO NOT COPY AND PASTE!!
, Elscores: Tuesday, 20 August 2024
prescriptive theory
✓ :-- address nursing interventions for a phenomenon, guide practice change, and
predict the consequences
most abstract theory
✓ :-- metatheory
least abstract theory
✓ :-- practice theory
Nightingale's Environmental Theory
✓ :-- Environment as the focus of nursing care
**Grand theory**
Peplau's Interpersonal Theory
✓ :-- Focus on interpersonal relations between nurse, patient, and patient's family
Phases: preorientation, orientation, working, resolution
**Middle-range theory**
Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory
✓ :-- Focuses on patient's self-care needs
DO NOT COPY AND PASTE!!
