Theoretical Foundations of Nursing
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Florence Nightingale - ANSWER Who began the history of professional nursing?
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER Who envisioned nurses as a body of educated women at a time when
women where neither educated nor employed in a public service?
Curriculum era - ANSWER What era does questions of content nurses should study to learn how to be a
nurse?
Curriculum era - ANSWER In this era, the idea or moving nursing education from hospital based diploma
programs into colleges and universities began to emerge.
Theory era - ANSWER the natural outgrowth of the research and graduate education
discipline is dependent on theory for its continued existence - ANSWER the significance of theory for the
discipline of nursing is that the
_______________________________________________________________________.
Nursing - ANSWER can be a vocation; can be a discipline with a professional style of theory based
practice
beneficial to patients - ANSWER Commitment to theory-based evidence for practice is
____________________ in that it guides systematic, knowledgeable care.
Theoretical Foundations of Nursing - ANSWER a central concept of health, person, environment, nursing,
and caring will be explored.
, Theoretical - ANSWER emphasis will be placed on theories related to the development of therapeutic
relationships, modes of effective communication and nursing therapeutics.
Nursing theories - ANSWER are organized body of knowledge to define what nursing is, what nurses do,
and why do the do it.
Nursing theories - ANSWER provide a way to define nursing as a unique discipline that is separate from
other discipline (e.g. medicine)
Nursing theories - ANSWER It is a framework of concepts and purposes intended to guide the practice of
nursing at a more concrete and specific level.
Nursing - ANSWER as a profession is committed to recognizing its own unparalleled body of knowledge
parallel to nursing practice.
identify, develop and understand - ANSWER to distinguish this foundation of knowledge nursing needed
to _________, ________, and ________ concept theories in line with nursing.
Nursing - ANSWER is a unique discipline and is separate from medicine. It has its own body of knowledge
on which delivery care is based.
1800s - ANSWER The first nursing theories appeared in the late ________ when a strong emphasis was
placed on nursing education.
1860 Florence Nightingale - ANSWER defined nursing in her environmental theory as the act of utilizing
the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery.
1950s - ANSWER there is a consensus among nursing scholars that nursing needed to validate itself
through the production of its own scientifically tested body of knowledge.
1952 Hildegard Peplau - ANSWER introduced her theory of interpersonal relations that puts emphasis on
the nurse client relationship as the foundation of nursing practice.
, 1955 Virginia Henderson - ANSWER conceptualized the nurse's role as assisting sick or healthy
individuals to gain independence in meeting 14 fundamentals of needs thus, her Nursing Need Theory
was developed.
1960 Faye Abdellah - ANSWER published her work "typology of 21 nursing problems" that shifted the
focus of nursing from a disease centered approach to a patient- centered approach
Philosophy of science exists as the interaction of philosophy and science - ANSWER where the two meet
to form a new perspective that aims to examine the body of knowledge and the approaches to the study
of body of knowledge.
Philosophy of science in nursing - ANSWER an examination of nursing concepts, theories, laws and aims
as they relate to nursing practice.
Epistemology - ANSWER is described generally as the doctrine of the sources, reliability and boundaries
of human knowledge
philosophy of nursing science - ANSWER includes the basic research, the standpoints for this particular
science with its own special features, its own theoretical perspective spelled out as 'good nursing' and its
own scientific ideal: a wish "being better able to meet the requirements of persons who seek nursing
through the mapping out of nursing actions which result in good nursing"
Philosophy - ANSWER is dynamic, it evolves and it is subtle while simultaneously being overt
nurse - ANSWER It is the _________ responsibility to view science form multitude of perspectives as a
nurse scientist, as care provider, and from the perspective of patient, family and society.
Epistemology - ANSWER described generally as the doctrine of the sources, reliability and boundaries of
human knowledge.
Philosophy - ANSWER encompasses more than rhetoric; it is a guide by which situation are approached,
the viewpoint used to see what is before one, and the method by which one searches for truth as well as
understanding of what truth is.
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Florence Nightingale - ANSWER Who began the history of professional nursing?
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER Who envisioned nurses as a body of educated women at a time when
women where neither educated nor employed in a public service?
Curriculum era - ANSWER What era does questions of content nurses should study to learn how to be a
nurse?
Curriculum era - ANSWER In this era, the idea or moving nursing education from hospital based diploma
programs into colleges and universities began to emerge.
Theory era - ANSWER the natural outgrowth of the research and graduate education
discipline is dependent on theory for its continued existence - ANSWER the significance of theory for the
discipline of nursing is that the
_______________________________________________________________________.
Nursing - ANSWER can be a vocation; can be a discipline with a professional style of theory based
practice
beneficial to patients - ANSWER Commitment to theory-based evidence for practice is
____________________ in that it guides systematic, knowledgeable care.
Theoretical Foundations of Nursing - ANSWER a central concept of health, person, environment, nursing,
and caring will be explored.
, Theoretical - ANSWER emphasis will be placed on theories related to the development of therapeutic
relationships, modes of effective communication and nursing therapeutics.
Nursing theories - ANSWER are organized body of knowledge to define what nursing is, what nurses do,
and why do the do it.
Nursing theories - ANSWER provide a way to define nursing as a unique discipline that is separate from
other discipline (e.g. medicine)
Nursing theories - ANSWER It is a framework of concepts and purposes intended to guide the practice of
nursing at a more concrete and specific level.
Nursing - ANSWER as a profession is committed to recognizing its own unparalleled body of knowledge
parallel to nursing practice.
identify, develop and understand - ANSWER to distinguish this foundation of knowledge nursing needed
to _________, ________, and ________ concept theories in line with nursing.
Nursing - ANSWER is a unique discipline and is separate from medicine. It has its own body of knowledge
on which delivery care is based.
1800s - ANSWER The first nursing theories appeared in the late ________ when a strong emphasis was
placed on nursing education.
1860 Florence Nightingale - ANSWER defined nursing in her environmental theory as the act of utilizing
the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery.
1950s - ANSWER there is a consensus among nursing scholars that nursing needed to validate itself
through the production of its own scientifically tested body of knowledge.
1952 Hildegard Peplau - ANSWER introduced her theory of interpersonal relations that puts emphasis on
the nurse client relationship as the foundation of nursing practice.
, 1955 Virginia Henderson - ANSWER conceptualized the nurse's role as assisting sick or healthy
individuals to gain independence in meeting 14 fundamentals of needs thus, her Nursing Need Theory
was developed.
1960 Faye Abdellah - ANSWER published her work "typology of 21 nursing problems" that shifted the
focus of nursing from a disease centered approach to a patient- centered approach
Philosophy of science exists as the interaction of philosophy and science - ANSWER where the two meet
to form a new perspective that aims to examine the body of knowledge and the approaches to the study
of body of knowledge.
Philosophy of science in nursing - ANSWER an examination of nursing concepts, theories, laws and aims
as they relate to nursing practice.
Epistemology - ANSWER is described generally as the doctrine of the sources, reliability and boundaries
of human knowledge
philosophy of nursing science - ANSWER includes the basic research, the standpoints for this particular
science with its own special features, its own theoretical perspective spelled out as 'good nursing' and its
own scientific ideal: a wish "being better able to meet the requirements of persons who seek nursing
through the mapping out of nursing actions which result in good nursing"
Philosophy - ANSWER is dynamic, it evolves and it is subtle while simultaneously being overt
nurse - ANSWER It is the _________ responsibility to view science form multitude of perspectives as a
nurse scientist, as care provider, and from the perspective of patient, family and society.
Epistemology - ANSWER described generally as the doctrine of the sources, reliability and boundaries of
human knowledge.
Philosophy - ANSWER encompasses more than rhetoric; it is a guide by which situation are approached,
the viewpoint used to see what is before one, and the method by which one searches for truth as well as
understanding of what truth is.
