INTRODUCTION TO NURSING THEORY

Founded the Nursing Theory and envisioned nurses as body of educated women

Florence Nightingale

Utilizing patients environment

Environmental Theory

Job Career, Education and Skills

Occupation

•A learned vocation

• Beneficial for members of the society

•A defined Knowledge

Profession

Concept is:

Building blocks of theory and is conceived in the mind

Building blocks of Theory and is conceived in the mind

Concept

What are the 2 types of concepts

Concrete/Empirical and Abstract

Can be seen, heard and felt. Limited by time and space

Concrete/Emperical

Abstract is:

Indirectly observed, intangible and must be defined with terms

Indirectly observed, intangible and must be defined with terms

Abstract

Concrete/Empirical is:

Can be seen, heard and felt. Limited by time and space

Answered by yes or no

Discrete/Non Variable

Classification of dimension of/on a continuum

Continuous Variable

• Organized system of accepted knowledge

• Composed of concepts, proposition, definition and assumption to explain a set of fact, event or phenomena

Theory

• Law or Rule

• Must be followed

Principles

•Term given to the body of knowledge

•Organizer frameworkof concept and purposes to guide the practice

Nursing Theory

Study of ideas about knowledge, truth, the nature and meaning of life

Philosophy

Provides framework for the organization of knowledge

Conceptual model

Study dealing with body of facts

Science

Information, skills, and expertise acquired by a person through LIFE EXPERIENCES and FORMAL/INFORMAL LEARNING

Knowledge

• Sets of Emperical data experiences

• Physically observed or tangible

Phenomenon

Example of PHENOMENON( in nursing)

Disease process and stomach ulcer

Components of Theory

• Purpose

• Concepts and conceptual definition

• Theoritical Statement/ Proposition

• Structure and linkage

• Assumption

• Models