Knowing Through Inquiry - NURS2420 Final (All Correct) 2024.

Nursing theory is: correct answers - A formal construction of knowledge - Factors that influence the nursing discipline - What nursing practice is and what it can be - Helps make meaning of what we encounter and see Nursing Praxis is defined as: correct answers Taking theory and integrating it into practice; being, knowing, and doing. What is the Metaparadigm of nursing? correct answers - The core focus and essence of nursing - Made up of abstract terms - Constructed of 4 concepts: nursing, person, environment, and health What is the Paradigm of nursing? correct answers - A worldview and shared perspective - A consensus reached within a community - Two opposing perspectives (Parse): Totality and Simultaneity What is the Totality (Parse) Paradigm? correct answers Humans are integrated beings with distinguishable dimension. They adapt to their environment (i.e. health and illness are states along a continuum). If a person loses a limb or becomes ill, they are no less a person and will adapt with these changes. "Car still car" What is the Simultaneity (Parse) Paradigm? correct answers Humans are unitary and cannot be reduced or broken down into separate components (mind, body, and spirit are one). Humans are irreducible and connected to the universe; exiting in a continuous process with the environment rather than adapting with what we have or do not have. cake if you take the chocolate out of the cake it is no longer a chocolate cake What are Grand Theories and Conceptual Models? correct answers - Conceptualizations of the profession and practice - Broad terms that apply across a range of practice settings in nursing - High level and connects abstract ideas - Indicates the relationships between other concepts What are Middle Range and Practice Level Theories? correct answers - Least abstract of the nursing theories