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domain |
is the perspective of a profession |
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paradigm |
is a pattern of thought that is useful in describing the domain |
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nursing paradigm |
the activity of nursing profession including knowledge, development philosophy education, experience, research and practice |
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person |
is the recipient of nursing care |
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health |
is dynamic and continuously changing |
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environment/situation |
includes all possible conditions affecting patients and the setting in which the health care need occur. |
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NURSING |
is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems |
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nursing theory |
is a conceptualization of some aspect of nursing that describes, explains, predicts, or prescribe nursing care. |
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theory |
a theory contains a set of concepts, definitions, and assumptions or proposition that explains a phenomenon. |
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phenomenon |
is the term given to describe an idea or response about and event |
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concepts |
can be simple or complex and relate to an object or event that comes from individual perceptual experiences |
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assumptions |
are the taken for granted statements that explain the nature of the concepts and structure of a theory |
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types of theories |
grand theories - systematic and broad in scope Middle range theories- less abstracts descriptive theories- first level describe phenom prescriptive- action oriented and test the validity |
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what is the overall goal of nursing knowledge |
to explain the practice of nursing as different from the practice of medicine |
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interdisciplinary theory |
explain a systematic a phenomenon specific to the discipline of inquiry. |
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systems theory |
there are two types of system OPEN human organisms exchanging information between the system and the environment. CLOSE a chemical reaction within a test tube does not interact with the environment |
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input |
the data of information that comes from a patient's assessment |
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output |
the end product of a system in the nursing process is whether the patient's health improves or declines |
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feedback |
serves to inform system how it functions |
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content |
is the product and information obtained from the system |
