Intro To Nursing Research Chp 5

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Borrowed Theories

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Theories taken from other disciplines and applied to nursing questions and research problems.

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Concepts

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Symbolic statements describing a phenomenon or a class of phenomena.

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Conceptual Model

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A set of abstract and general concepts that are assembled to address a phenomenon of interest. Sometimes referred to as theoretical framework or conceptual framework.

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Constructs

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Higher-level concepts that are derived from theories and that represent nonobservable behaviors.

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Deductive Approach

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An approach to reasoning that generates theory by beginning with known facts, moving from the general to the specific. It is an approach used to test predictions and validate existing relationships.

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Grand Theories

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Theories that are complex and broad in scope. Grand theories attempt to explain broad areas and include numerous concepts that are not well defined and that have ambiguous and unclear relationships.

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Inductive Approach

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An approach to the reasoning that involves collecting observations that lead to conclusions or hypotheses. This approach moves from specific observations to general statements that can be tested through research.

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Meetaparadigm

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Refers to the primary or central phenomena that are of interest to a particular discipline.

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Middle-range theories

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Theories that look at a piece of reality and that contain clearly defined variables in which the nature and direction of relationships are specified.

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Nursing Theory

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A specific and concrete set of concepts and propositions that accounts for or characterizes phenomena of interest to the discipline of nursing.

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Practice Theories

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Theories that are more specific than middle-range theories and that produce specific directions or guidelines for practice.

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Theory

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An organized and systematic set of interrelated statements (concepts) that specify the nature of relationships between two or more variables, with the purpose of understanding a problem or nature of things.