Introduction to Theory
A lens, a way you view the world
What is philosophy?
This placed great emphasis on the demarcation of science from other forms of knowledge
What is logic positivism?
These are more abstract and broader in view
What is a Grand Theory?
A worldview of a discipline
What is a metaparadigm?
Patient you are seeing is not interested in smoking cessation at this time. This is what stage of change in the Transtheoretical Model
What is pre-contemplation?
The application of knowledge for a specific purpose which yields utility
What is the aim of science?
Prior to the 1970's nurses' education was based on this
What was training?
These are more concrete and narrower in focus
What are Middle Range theories?
Elements of a nursing metaparadigm
What are human beings, environment, health, and nursing?
Health as Expanding Consciousness
What is Margaret Newman's theory?
This criteria for science is based on a belief in the valus of corroboration and on the idea that if 2 people view it the same way, they should get the same answer
What is inter-subjective testability?
This involved an emphasis on narrative traditions and discourse, along with philosophies of critical social theory and feminism
What is post modernism?
These theories elaborate, contain more clearly outlined characteristics; have better defined purposes
What are scientific theories?
A set of relatively abstract and general concepts addressing phenomena of central interest to a discipline
What is a conceptual framework/model?
Jean Watson's existential theory
What is the Theory of Human Caring?
The term when researchers achieve the same result time and again with no change in circumstances
What is reliability?
A clinical-focused terminal degree
What is the DNP?
These theories comprise explanations that people invoke on a daily basis to make sense of their lives
What are commonsense theories?
C-T-E is
What is conceptual-theoretical-empirical formulation for theory development by Fawcett?
Psychiatric nurse in 1952 developed her theory on interpersonal relations in nursing
Who is Hildegard Peplau?
The term when human history progresses from the theological to the metaphysical to the positivistic
What is logical positivism?
A research-focused terminal degree
What is the PhD?
These are propositions that have meaning, validity, and truth within a specific contexy
What are theories?
An empirical indicator
What is data?
The act of destabilizing old behaviors and is a necessary for old behaviors to be unlearned or discarded
What is unfreezing in Change Theory?