NSE 11A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Practice Theory, Hand Washing, Theory-Theory
21 Apr 2020
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Historical evolution of nursing profession: unregulated discipline, florence nightingale, lowered death rate by 70, fought in parliament, first person to document handwashing , hygiene, cleanliness, nutrition, handmaiden; apprentice, profession with unique scholarly knowledge base & defined scope of practice. Sets of ideas (concepts) used to describe, explain or predict the physical and social worlds. Linkages that spell out how the concepts are related: generated by inductive process, evaluated [propositions are tested] and modified by deductive process. Definitions: conceptual: general meaning based on the theory, operational: specific direction of how concept is measured. Conceptual model: the diagrammatic representation of a theory, explains linkage of concepts, are more abstract and less specific than theories ( but can guide practice, a network linked of concepts into a meaningful configuration. Paradigm: patterns of shared understandings, nurses, doctors, engineers knowledge and guidelines according to our outline, paradigm shift theories are often based on paradigms.
