Definitions and Concepts
What is a group of related ideas, statements, or concepts?
What is a theory?
The process of using logic to derive conclusions from facts in nursing is known as this.
What is reasoning?
Which theorist linked health to environmental factors?
Who is Florence Nightingale?
In the nursing metaparadigm, which component refers to the internal and external surroundings that affect the client?
What is the environment?
Organized bodies of knowledge that define what nursing is, what nurses do, and why they do it.
What are Nursing theories?
This phase of the nursing process focuses on gathering and analyzing relevant patient data.
What is assessment?
Which nursing theorist spoke on five categories that are arranged in order of importance from those essential for physical survival to those necessary to develop a person’s fullest potential?
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This component of the nursing metaparadigm refers to an individual, family, group, community, or all of mankind, as the recipient of nursing care.
What is a Person?
What is the term for the dynamic process in which the nurse and patient work together to identify and meet the patient’s health needs?
What is a therapeutic relationship?
A general idea drawn from particular examples is known as…
What is inductive reasoning?
Which nursing theorist introduced the system model in 1974?
Who is Betty Neuman?
This component of the nursing metaparadigm refers to the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease.
What is health?
What is a group of related ideas, statements or concepts?
What is Conceptual Framework?
Name the type of reasoning that is used when a logical conclusion is drawn based on available information.
What is deductive reasoning?
These two theorists provided the foundation and possibly the stimulus for theory development in the 1960’s and later. Who are they?
Virginia Henderson and Hildegard Peplau
In the nursing metaparadigm, which component refers to the skills, knowledge, and techniques nurses use to care for patients?
What is the nursing component
What are the three classification levels of Nursing Theories?
What is Practice, Grand & Mid-level?
This process involves integrating clinical knowledge with patient-specific information to make informed decisions.
What clinical reasoning?
What are the four things that the basic assumption of a nursing theory emphasizes?
What are needs, systems, interaction, and energy fields?
This aspect of the nursing metaparadigm highlights the importance of the interactions between the nurse, the patient, and the environment in the delivery of care.
What is the nursing process?