Nursing 1060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nursing Theory, Practice Theory, Metatheory
20 Dec 2015
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Theory directs attention theory orients: without theory, nurses would resemble hikers without maps, familiar with the ground they"ve covered but still unable to break new paths, choose between trails, or anticipate what lies ahead. Theory provides structure and organization for nursing knowledge. Theory provides systematic means of collecting data to describe, explain, and predict phenomena of importance to nursing. Theories define and clarify nursing and distinguish it from other caring professions. Serve as the basis for clinical information systems. Phenomena - aspects of reality that can be consciously sensed or experienced. Assumptions beliefs about phenomena that are accepted as true. Concept abstract elements of a phenomenon necessary to understand it. Represent the basic ways in which ideas are organized and communicated. Paradigm organizing framework that contains concepts, theories, assumptions, beliefs, values, and principles that form the way a discipline interprets the subject matter with which it is concerned.
