2025
EXERCISES
[NR 501 NURSING THEORY]
, 1. Epistemology
theories of knowledge or how people come to have knowledge; in nursing, it is the study of the origins of
nursing knowledge.
2. Hypotheses
tentative suggestions that a specific relationship exists between two concepts or propositions. As the
hypothesis is repeatedly confirmed, it progresses to an empirical generalization and ultimately to a law.
3. Knowledge
an awareness or perception of reality acquired through insight, learning, or investigation.
4. Laws
proposition about the relationship between concepts in a theory that has been repeatedly validated. They
are highly generalizable.
5. Metaparadigm
the global perspective that subsumes more specific views and approaches to the central concepts with
which the discipline is concerned. It is an ideology within which the theories, knowledge, and processes
for knowing find meaning and coherence.
6. Middle range theory
a part of a disciplines's concerns related to particular topics which is narrower than that of broad-range or
grand theories.
7. Model
graphic or symbolic representations of phenomena that objectify and present certain perspectives or
points of view about nature or function or both. May be theoretical or empirical.
EXERCISES
[NR 501 NURSING THEORY]
, 1. Epistemology
theories of knowledge or how people come to have knowledge; in nursing, it is the study of the origins of
nursing knowledge.
2. Hypotheses
tentative suggestions that a specific relationship exists between two concepts or propositions. As the
hypothesis is repeatedly confirmed, it progresses to an empirical generalization and ultimately to a law.
3. Knowledge
an awareness or perception of reality acquired through insight, learning, or investigation.
4. Laws
proposition about the relationship between concepts in a theory that has been repeatedly validated. They
are highly generalizable.
5. Metaparadigm
the global perspective that subsumes more specific views and approaches to the central concepts with
which the discipline is concerned. It is an ideology within which the theories, knowledge, and processes
for knowing find meaning and coherence.
6. Middle range theory
a part of a disciplines's concerns related to particular topics which is narrower than that of broad-range or
grand theories.
7. Model
graphic or symbolic representations of phenomena that objectify and present certain perspectives or
points of view about nature or function or both. May be theoretical or empirical.
