Nurs 2030: Exam 1 - Chapter 10 Using Nursing
Theory to Guide Professional Practice- Questions
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• Provides a systematic, knowledgeable approach to
patient care
• Contributes to the professional growth of the nurse
and the nursing profession as a whole
Nursing Theory
• Serves as a tool for critical thinking and decision-
making in nursing practice
• Nursing research is the vehicle by which nursing
theories are tested
• Philosophies
• Conceptual Models and Grand Theories
Types of Theoretical
Works
• Theories
• Middle-Range Theories
, • Person
Common Universal • Health
Concepts Among All
Types: • Environment
• Nursing
Philosophies expressions of personal thoughts, beliefs, and values
• Express beliefs about nursing and nursing-related
values (caring, integrity, nonjudgmental attitude,
listening, accountability, empathy, knowledge,
teamwork, and patient advocacy)
• Provide broad, global explanations of phenomena of
Nursing philosophies: interest that contribute to nursing knowledge
• Gives direction toprofessional practice and
influences professional behaviors
• Nursing philosophies include the works of
Nightingale, Watson, and Benner
• Are building blocks of nursing theory
• Initiated based on a personal philosophy or belief
about nursing
• May be abstract or concrete
Concepts
• Allow the theorist to describe and classify a
phenomenon of interest
• Thought of as an idea and must be clearly defined to
reduce misunderstanding
Constructs • Similar to concepts but more abstract
Theory to Guide Professional Practice- Questions
and Answers
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Terms in this set (32)
• Provides a systematic, knowledgeable approach to
patient care
• Contributes to the professional growth of the nurse
and the nursing profession as a whole
Nursing Theory
• Serves as a tool for critical thinking and decision-
making in nursing practice
• Nursing research is the vehicle by which nursing
theories are tested
• Philosophies
• Conceptual Models and Grand Theories
Types of Theoretical
Works
• Theories
• Middle-Range Theories
, • Person
Common Universal • Health
Concepts Among All
Types: • Environment
• Nursing
Philosophies expressions of personal thoughts, beliefs, and values
• Express beliefs about nursing and nursing-related
values (caring, integrity, nonjudgmental attitude,
listening, accountability, empathy, knowledge,
teamwork, and patient advocacy)
• Provide broad, global explanations of phenomena of
Nursing philosophies: interest that contribute to nursing knowledge
• Gives direction toprofessional practice and
influences professional behaviors
• Nursing philosophies include the works of
Nightingale, Watson, and Benner
• Are building blocks of nursing theory
• Initiated based on a personal philosophy or belief
about nursing
• May be abstract or concrete
Concepts
• Allow the theorist to describe and classify a
phenomenon of interest
• Thought of as an idea and must be clearly defined to
reduce misunderstanding
Constructs • Similar to concepts but more abstract
