Nursing Theories Chapter 4 Questions and
Answers
- describe the domain of nursing and links with person health environment and nursing -
ANS-Paradigms
Provides a description, explanation, prediction or prescription of nursing care -
ANS-Nursing Theory
description of an event, a situation, or process in nursing. - ANS-Phenomenon
-Patient's reaction to stress
Interrelated ideas that describe or label a phenomena - ANS-Concepts
- stressors
Communicate the general meaning of the concepts - ANS-Definitions -Stressor is
define as any stimuli that can produce tension & cause instability in the system
Taken for granted statements that explain the concepts, definitions relationships &
structure of the theory - ANS-Assumptions/Propositions
Systematic, broad, & requir further specification through research - ANS-Grand theories
Limited in scope, less abstract, focus on a specific aspect of nursing -
ANS-Middle-range theories
First level of theory development; describe, explain and predict phenomena -
ANS-Descriptive theories
Test the validity & predictability of nursing interventions - ANS-Prescriptive theories
Florence Nightingale's focus of nursing is caring through the _______. Her _______
theory provides nurses with a way to thing about pt and their _____. - ANS-Environment
descriptive
environment
Hildegard Peplau
Answers
- describe the domain of nursing and links with person health environment and nursing -
ANS-Paradigms
Provides a description, explanation, prediction or prescription of nursing care -
ANS-Nursing Theory
description of an event, a situation, or process in nursing. - ANS-Phenomenon
-Patient's reaction to stress
Interrelated ideas that describe or label a phenomena - ANS-Concepts
- stressors
Communicate the general meaning of the concepts - ANS-Definitions -Stressor is
define as any stimuli that can produce tension & cause instability in the system
Taken for granted statements that explain the concepts, definitions relationships &
structure of the theory - ANS-Assumptions/Propositions
Systematic, broad, & requir further specification through research - ANS-Grand theories
Limited in scope, less abstract, focus on a specific aspect of nursing -
ANS-Middle-range theories
First level of theory development; describe, explain and predict phenomena -
ANS-Descriptive theories
Test the validity & predictability of nursing interventions - ANS-Prescriptive theories
Florence Nightingale's focus of nursing is caring through the _______. Her _______
theory provides nurses with a way to thing about pt and their _____. - ANS-Environment
descriptive
environment
Hildegard Peplau
