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Concept
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A mental formulation of objects or events, representing the basic way in which ideas are organized and communicated.
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conceptualization
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process of formulating concepts
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operational definition
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description of concepts that are said in such a way that they can be applied to decision making at clinical level
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assumption
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a descrpition of concepts or connection of two concepts that are accepted as being true
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proposition
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declarative assertion
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phenomonon
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aspect of reality that is consciously sensed or expeirenced
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theoretical model
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mental representation how how things work
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conceptual framework
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link major nursing concepts and phenomena to direct nursing decisions; linking stuff for a particular purpose
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Florence Nightengale
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-crimean war, mid 1800s founder of nursing
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What did Florence Nightengale contribute?
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-acceptance of women working outside home and having a profession
-advances in health care -need for hospitals to have nurses -nursing seen as empancitaptory for women at the time |
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What does nursing knowledge consist of?
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philosophy,worldviews and nursing theories
philosophy:values,beliefs and fucntions worldviews:emperist and interpretive nursing theories:Benner, Roach and Watson |
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What is a paradigm?
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a paticular way of thinking based in a set of bliefs, values and assumptions
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What are the two worldviews?
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Empericist and interpretive
Empercist:positvist interpretive:critical theory, phenomonolgy and postmodernism |
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What does the knowledge of nursing comprise of?
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natural science,human science,nursing theories and borrowed theories
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What is a thoery?
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It is a purposeful set of assumptions or propositions that show the relationship between concepts
-provides te systematic view of explaining predicting and decribing phenomenon |
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What is the nursing theory?
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It is the conceputlization of some aspect of nursing communicated for the purpose of describing, explaning, predicting and or presecribning nursing care
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