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NR501 Week 8: Nursing Theory Quiz| NR 501 Week 8 Nursing Theory Quiz (Solutions).
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,, Assumptions - Phenomena one must accept as true. May be based on accepted
knowledge or personal beliefs and values. May not be susceptible to testing, can be
argues philosophically.
Borrowed or Shared Theroy - Developed in another discipline that is not adapted to the
worldview and practice of nursing.
Concept - Elements or components of a phenomenon necessary to understand the
phenomenon. Abstract and derived from impressions the human mind receives about
phenomena through sensing the environment.
Conceptual Model/Conceptual Framework - Set of interrelated concepts that
symbolically represents and conveys a mental image of a phenomenon. They identify
concepts and describe their relationships to the phenomena of central concern to the
discipline.
Construct - Most complex type of concept. Comprise more than one concept.
Concept=Construct (Interchangeable)
All constructs are concepts but not all concepts are constructs
Empirical Indicator - Very specific and concrete identifiers of concepts. Actual
instructions, experimental conditions, and procedures used to observe or measure the
concepts of a theory.
Epistemology - How people become to have nursing knowledge. The study of origins of
nursing knowledge.
Hypothesis - Tentative suggestion that a relationship exists between two concepts or
propositions. After confirmed, progress to empirical generalization , then to a law.
Knowledge - Awareness or perception of reality acquired through insight learning ir
investigation. Accurate understanding of the works as seen by members of a discipline.
Laws - Proposition about relationship between concepts that has been repeatedly
validated. highly generalizable. Usually observable and measurable. Few in social and
human sciences.
Metaparadigm - Represents worldview of a discipline. Ideology which the theories,
knowledge and process of knowing find meaning and coherence. Nursing - person,
health, environment, nursing
Middle Range Theory - A part of a discipline concerns related to particular topics.
Narrower than broad range or grand theories.
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