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NURS246 Nursing Theory Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: What are theories?, 🗹🗹: Theories are specific and concrete concepts and
propositions that purport to account for or organize some phenomenon.
Q: The metaparadigm for nursing focuses on what 4 concepts?, 🗹🗹: human beings,
environment, health, and nursing
Q: Define philosophy, 🗹🗹: your state of beliefs or values
Q: Define conceptual framework, 🗹🗹: a collection of interrelated concepts that
provides direction for nursing practice, research, and education
Q: List the components of the nursing metaparadigm, 🗹🗹: person, environment,
health, and nursing
Q: What represents a group of concepts that can be tested in practice and can be derived
from a conceptual model?, 🗹🗹: nursing theory
Q: Grand theories, 🗹🗹: Nursing theories consisting of a global conceptual
framework that defines broad perspectives for nursing practice and provides ways of
looking at nursing phenomena from a distinct nursing viewpoint?
Q: Theories that are big and define key concepts, 🗹🗹: grand theories
Q: Theories that are more narrowly focused, specific, and concrete, 🗹🗹: middle-
range theories
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Q: Middle-range theories, 🗹🗹: Moderately abstract and has a limited number of
variables; more concrete and narrowly focused on a specific condition or population
than are grand theories
Q: Nursing theories are frameworks for what?, 🗹🗹: practice, education, and
research
Q: Why are nursing theories important?, 🗹🗹: They provide the framework for
practice, education, and research.
Q: Developed the theory that nurses manipulate the environment to promote health,
🗹🗹: Nightingale
Q: What were the 5 essential components of environmental health in Nightingale's
theory?, 🗹🗹: pure air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light
(additionally: warmth, quiet, diet, and variety)
Q: Developed the Philosophy of Transpersonal Caring--Science of Caring, 🗹🗹: Jean
Watson
Q: What does the philosophy of transpersonal caring theory state, 🗹🗹: through
caring behaviors, nurses assist patients to attain unity and harmony within the mind,
body, and soul
Q: Which theory was based on altruistic/humanistic values with a holistic focus?,
🗹🗹: Philosophy of transpersonal caring
Q: Who defined health as "unity and harmony within the mind, body, and soul"?,
🗹🗹: Jean Watson (Philosophy of transpersonal caring)
Q: Who's theory included the 10 Caritas Processes as a directing factor of nursing care?,
🗹🗹: Jean Watson (Philosophy of transpersonal caring)
NURS246 Nursing Theory Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: What are theories?, 🗹🗹: Theories are specific and concrete concepts and
propositions that purport to account for or organize some phenomenon.
Q: The metaparadigm for nursing focuses on what 4 concepts?, 🗹🗹: human beings,
environment, health, and nursing
Q: Define philosophy, 🗹🗹: your state of beliefs or values
Q: Define conceptual framework, 🗹🗹: a collection of interrelated concepts that
provides direction for nursing practice, research, and education
Q: List the components of the nursing metaparadigm, 🗹🗹: person, environment,
health, and nursing
Q: What represents a group of concepts that can be tested in practice and can be derived
from a conceptual model?, 🗹🗹: nursing theory
Q: Grand theories, 🗹🗹: Nursing theories consisting of a global conceptual
framework that defines broad perspectives for nursing practice and provides ways of
looking at nursing phenomena from a distinct nursing viewpoint?
Q: Theories that are big and define key concepts, 🗹🗹: grand theories
Q: Theories that are more narrowly focused, specific, and concrete, 🗹🗹: middle-
range theories
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Q: Middle-range theories, 🗹🗹: Moderately abstract and has a limited number of
variables; more concrete and narrowly focused on a specific condition or population
than are grand theories
Q: Nursing theories are frameworks for what?, 🗹🗹: practice, education, and
research
Q: Why are nursing theories important?, 🗹🗹: They provide the framework for
practice, education, and research.
Q: Developed the theory that nurses manipulate the environment to promote health,
🗹🗹: Nightingale
Q: What were the 5 essential components of environmental health in Nightingale's
theory?, 🗹🗹: pure air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light
(additionally: warmth, quiet, diet, and variety)
Q: Developed the Philosophy of Transpersonal Caring--Science of Caring, 🗹🗹: Jean
Watson
Q: What does the philosophy of transpersonal caring theory state, 🗹🗹: through
caring behaviors, nurses assist patients to attain unity and harmony within the mind,
body, and soul
Q: Which theory was based on altruistic/humanistic values with a holistic focus?,
🗹🗹: Philosophy of transpersonal caring
Q: Who defined health as "unity and harmony within the mind, body, and soul"?,
🗹🗹: Jean Watson (Philosophy of transpersonal caring)
Q: Who's theory included the 10 Caritas Processes as a directing factor of nursing care?,
🗹🗹: Jean Watson (Philosophy of transpersonal caring)
