Community Health Nursing: A Canadian
Perspective 6th Edition by Aliyah Dosani,
Josephine Etowa & Cheryl van Daalen-
Smith 9780137959921 | All Chapters
Complete.
WEEK 3: Theoretical foundation of nursing
What is a theory?
A purposeful set of assumptions or propositions that identify
relationships between concepts and provides a systematic view for
explaining, predicting, and prescribing phenomena.
Why are theories important in nursing?
They help articulate the complexity of nursing excellence and place
nursing tasks and skills within the context of real human lives, social
contexts, health, and illness.
What is nursing theory?
Knowledge about nursing organized for nurses to use professionally and
accountably.
How does nursing theory help nurses understand patient situations?
, It provides a perspective for viewing situations, organizing data, and
analyzing and interpreting information so nursing practice is coherent
and informed.
Whose work is considered an early theoretical and conceptual model
for nursing?
Florence Nightingale.
What is nursing science?
The unique body of knowledge about the practice of nursing.
What is a concept?
A mental formulation of objects or events representing a basic way
ideas are organized and communicated.
What example of a concept is given on the slide?
Anxiety.
What is conceptualization?
The process of formulating concepts.
What example of conceptualization is given?
Framing behavioural patterns as anxiety-related.
What is an operational definition?
A description of concepts stated so they can be applied to decision-
making in practice; it links concepts with other concepts and theories
and often identifies essential properties and distinguishing features.
What example of an operational definition is given?
Differentiation and measurement of state and trait anxiety.
Perspective 6th Edition by Aliyah Dosani,
Josephine Etowa & Cheryl van Daalen-
Smith 9780137959921 | All Chapters
Complete.
WEEK 3: Theoretical foundation of nursing
What is a theory?
A purposeful set of assumptions or propositions that identify
relationships between concepts and provides a systematic view for
explaining, predicting, and prescribing phenomena.
Why are theories important in nursing?
They help articulate the complexity of nursing excellence and place
nursing tasks and skills within the context of real human lives, social
contexts, health, and illness.
What is nursing theory?
Knowledge about nursing organized for nurses to use professionally and
accountably.
How does nursing theory help nurses understand patient situations?
, It provides a perspective for viewing situations, organizing data, and
analyzing and interpreting information so nursing practice is coherent
and informed.
Whose work is considered an early theoretical and conceptual model
for nursing?
Florence Nightingale.
What is nursing science?
The unique body of knowledge about the practice of nursing.
What is a concept?
A mental formulation of objects or events representing a basic way
ideas are organized and communicated.
What example of a concept is given on the slide?
Anxiety.
What is conceptualization?
The process of formulating concepts.
What example of conceptualization is given?
Framing behavioural patterns as anxiety-related.
What is an operational definition?
A description of concepts stated so they can be applied to decision-
making in practice; it links concepts with other concepts and theories
and often identifies essential properties and distinguishing features.
What example of an operational definition is given?
Differentiation and measurement of state and trait anxiety.
