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CONCEPT
Often called the “building blocks of theories”
Abstract & concrete concepts
Mental formulation of an object or event that come from individual perceptual experience.
Is a generalized idea of some group of objects; or an abstract idea generalized from several
specific instances
It is an image or mental picture of some phenomenon
Major components of a theory
ABSTRACT
Indirectly observable and are independent of time or place
Not easily understood
CONCRETE
are specific to time, place and are observable.
real, perceptible by the senses, experience
THEORY
A group of related concepts that propose actions that guide practice
A set of concepts, definitions, relationships, assumptions that project a systematic view of a
phenomena
An organized system of accepted knowledge that is composed of concepts, proposition,
assumption and definition intended to explain a set of fact, event or phenomena
PHENOMENON
is an aspect of reality that can be consciously sensed or influenced
Observable event
An empirical data that can be observed
PROPOSITION
a statement that proposes a relationship between concepts
DEFINITION
is composed of various descriptions which convey a general meaning and reduces the vagueness
in understanding a set of concepts
ASSUMPTION
is a proposition that is taken for granted, as if it were true based upon presupposition without
preponderance of the facts
A statement that specifies the relationship or connection of factual concepts or phenomena
Statement that the theorist hold as factual
PRINCIPLE
A basic law, truth or assumption
a fundamental, primary, or general law or truth from which others are derived
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Group of related ideas, statements, or concepts
Often used interchangeably with the terms “conceptual model” and “grand theories”
Examples: Freud’s structure of the mind (id, ego, and superego)
PARADIGM
A paradigm is an organizing framework that contains concepts, theories, assumptions, beliefs,
values, and principles that form the way a discipline interprets the subject matter with which it is
concerned.
METAPARADIGM
specifies the main concepts that encompass the subject matter and the scope of a discipline.
the metaparadigm concepts provide the boundaries and limitations of a discipline
1. PERSON
refers to the individual, family, or group who are the interest of nursing
the recipient of care central to the care being provided
individual clients
families
communities
2. HEALTH
the goal of nursing care; state of well-being; defined in different ways by the client, the
clinical setting and health care profession; it is a state that is dynamic and continuously
changing.
3. ENVIRONMENT
the internal and external surrounding that affect the client; includes all possible conditions
affecting the client and the setting in which health care needs occur (community, home,
school or workplace).
Is the place or community where care is provided
It also describes the world a person lives in and interacts with
4. NURSING
the discipline from which client care interventions are provided; the diagnosis and treatment
of human responses to actual or potential health problems; attributes, characteristics and
actions of the nurse providing care on behalf of, or in conjunction with the client.
the actions and interactions of the nurse with the person.
COMPONENTS OF A THEORY
1. Purpose
2. Concepts
3. Models
4. Theoretical statements
5. Structure
6. Assumptions
1. PURPOSE
the purpose of a theory explains why the theory was formulated and specifies the context and
situation in which it should be applied
Describe
Explain
Predict
Prescribe
EDUCATION
Prepare students for practice as members of the professional community.
Helps nursing students understand how roles and actions of nurses fit together in nursing
Theories provide general focus for curriculum design
Theories also guide curricular decision making
RESEARCH
Offer a framework for generating knowledge and new ideas
Assist in discovering knowledge gaps in the specific field of study
Systematic approach to identify questions
CLINICAL PRACTICE
Guide critical thinking of nurses
Represent status of nursing as a discipline
Used as a framework for structuring nursing practice
Development of nursing knowledge/ nursing science
Assist nurses to describe, explain and predict everyday experiences
Serve to guide assessment, intervention and evaluation of nursing care
Provide a rationale for collecting reliable and valid data
Help to establish criteria to measure the quality of nursing care
Help build a common nursing terminology
Enhance autonomy of nursing
3. MODEL
are schematic representation of some aspect of reality.
help illustrates the processes through which outcomes occur by specifying the relationships
among the variables in graphic form where they can be examined for inconsistency,
incompleteness or errors.
4. THEORETICAL STATEMENTS
theoretical statements, or propositions, are statements about the relationship between two or
more concepts and are used to connect concepts to devise the theory
6. ASSUMPTIONS
are notations that are taken to be true without proof
“Systematic set of interrelated concepts, definitions and deductions that describe, explore, explain or
predict interrelationships. “ – Pinnel and Menesis
“Internally consistent group of relational statements (concepts, definitions and propositions) that
presents a systematic view about phenomenon and which is useful for description, explanation,
exploration and prediction.” – Walker and Avant
“Creative and vigorous structuring of ideas that project a tentative, purposeful and systematic view of
phenomena”. –Chinn and Krammer
CHARACTERISTICS OF A THEORY
Creative in structure
Articulate, systematic and logical
Tentative in nature
USES OF A THEORY
Guides research
Improves nursing practice
Facilitates communication
To develop body of knowledge
Source of Development Developed through Evolve from grand Derived from practice
thoughtful appraisal theories,clinical practice, or deduced from
and careful literature review, middle range or grand
considerations over practice guidelines range
many years
Different views of person, health, environment and nursing by various nursing theorists
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Nightingale became a heroine in Great Britain as a result of her work in the Crimean War. Her
depiction of the very poor sanitary conditions in the hospital wards at Scutari is overwhelming. She fought
the bureaucracy for food, bandages, fresh bedding, and cleaning supplies for the soldiers. At times she
bought supplies with her finances.
She showed concern for the comfort of the English soldier - well, injured, or sick, including supporting
the establishment of a laundry, library, assistance with letter writing, a banking system so the soldiers
could save their pay, and a hospital for the families who go with the soldiers to war. Also, she provided
comfort and security to the seriously sick and dying. Her skills in decision-making were often better than
those of many officers in the army. She spent the years after the Crimea establishing schools of nursing
and influencing public policy by lobbying her acquaintances about several of her concerns.
NIGHTINGALE’S CANONS
LIGHT
Check room for adequate light. Sunlight is beneficial to the patient.
Create and implement adequate light in the room without placing the patient in direct light
CLEANLINESS
Check room for dust, dampness and dirt
Keep room free from dust, dirt and dampness
HEALTH OF HOUSES
Check surrounding environment for fresh air, pure water, drainage, cleanliness and light.
Remove garbage, stagnant water and ensure clean water and fresh air.
NOISE
Check noise level in the room and surroundings
Attempt to keep noise level in minimum
BED AND BEDDING
Check bed and bedding for dampness, wrinkles and soiling.
Keep the bed dry, wrinkle-free and lowest height to ensure comfort
PERSONAL CLEANLINESS
Attempt to keep the patient dry and clean at all times
Frequent assessment of the patient’s skin is essential to maintain good skin integrity
VARIETY
Attempt to accomplish variety in the room and with the client.
This is done with cards, flowers, pictures and books. Also encourage friends or relatives to
engage in stimulating activities
TAKING FOOD
Check the diet of the patient. Note the amount of food and fluid ingested by the patient at every
meal.
PETTY MANAGEMENT
This ensures continuity of care
Document the plan of care and evaluate the outcomes to ensure continuity
Emphasis on surroundings
Disease was a reparative process
Manipulation of the patient’s surroundings
Essential Components of Environment
Two of her Major contributions were Notes in Nursing and Notes on Hospitals
METAPARADIGM
PERSON - referred to the person as a patient; a person with vital reparative powers to dealk with the
disease and is responsive to the environment
HEALTH - being well and using every power that the person has to the fullest extent; focus is on the
reparative process of getting well
ENVIRONMENT - those elements external to and which affect the health of the sick and healthy person;
all external conditions that affect the life and development of the individual
NURSING - every woman, at one time in her life, would be a nurse ; goal is to place the individual in the
best condition for nature to act by basically affecting the environment; nurse performs the task to and for
the patient
VIRGINIA HENDERSON
The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those
activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to a peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he
had the necessary strength, will or knowledge and to do this in such a way as to help him gain
independence as rapidly as possible.
American Florence Nightingale
First Lady of Nursing
First Truly International Nurse
Modern Day Nightingale
14 BASIC NEEDS
Physiologic
1. Breathe normally
2. Eat & drink adequately
3. Eliminate body waste
4. Move and maintain desirable posture
5. Sleep & rest
6. Select suitable clothing, dress and undress
7. Maintain body temperature
8. Keep the body clean & well groomed & protect the integument
9. Avoid dangers in the environment & avoid injuring others
10. Communicate with others in expressing emotions, needs, fears, or opinions
Spiritual
11. Worship according to one’s faith
Sociological
12. Work in such a way that there is a sense of accomplishment
13. Play, or participate in various forms recreation
14. Learn, discover or satisfy the curiosity that leads to “normal” development and health, and use
available health facilities.
METAPARADIGM
PERSON - The individual who requires assistance to achieve health and independence or peaceful death
HEALTH - The patient’s ability to perform the 14 components of nursing care unaided or independently
ENVIRONMENT - The aggregate of all the external conditions and influences affecting the life and
development of an organism.
NURSING - “The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of
those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to a peaceful death) that he would perform
unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge and to do this in such a way as to help him
gain independence as rapidly as possible.”
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
PERSON
- The person must maintain physiological and emotional balance.
- The mind and body of the person are inseparable.
- The Patient requires help toward independence.
- The patient and his or her family is a unit.
- The Patient’s needs are encompassed by the 14 components of nursing.
HEALTH
- Health is a quality of life
- Health is basic to human functioning
- Health requires independence and interdependence.
- Promotion of health is more important than care of the sick.
- Individuals will achieve or maintain health if they have the necessary strength, will or knowledge.
ENVIRONMENT
- Healthy individuals may be able to control their environment, but illness may interfere with that
ability.
- Nurses should have safety education.
- Nurses should protect patients from mechanical injury.
- Nurses should minimize chances of injury through recommendation regarding construction of
buildings, purchase of equipment, and maintenance.
- Doctors use nurse’s observations and judgments as the base of their prescriptions for protection
devices.
- Nurses must know about social customs and religious practices to assess dangers.
NURSING
- The nurse has a unique function to help sick or well individuals.
- The nurse functions as a member of a medical team.
- The nurse functions independently of the physician in attendance.
- The nurse is knowledgeable in both biological and social sciences.
- The nurse can assess basic human needs.
- The 14 components of nursing care encompass all possible functions of nursing.
GOAL OF NURSING: Assisting individuals to achieve health and independence or peaceful death
Nurse assumes the ff role:
As a substitute for the patient (substitutive)
As a helper for the patient (supplementary)
As a partner with the patient (complimentary)
FAYE GLENN ABDELLAH
The nurse formulates an individualized view of the client’s needs, which may occur in the following four
areas:
Comfort, hygiene and safety.
Physiological balance
Psychological & social factors.
Sociological and community factors
METAPARADIGM
PERSON - The recipient of care having physical, emotional, and sociologic needs that may be overt and
covert.
ENVIRONMENT - Suggests that patients interact with and respond to their environment and the nurse is
part of that environment; also refers to the home or community where the patient come from
FRAMEWORK
JEAN WATSON
ASSUMPTIONS
- Caring can be effectively demonstrated and practiced only interpersonally.
- Caring consists of carative factors that result in the satisfaction of certain human needs.
- Effective caring promotes health and individual or family growth.
- Caring responses accept a person not only as he or she is now but as what he or she may
become.
- A caring environment is one that offers the development of potential while allowing the person to
choose the best action for himself or herself at a given point in time.
- Caring is more “healthogenic” than is curing. The practice of caring integrates biophysical
knowledge with knowledge of human behavior to generate or promote health and to provide
ministrations to those who are ill. A science of caring is therefore complementary to the science of
curing.
- The practice of caring is central to nursing. (Watson, 1979)
METAPARADIGM
HEALTH - Unity and harmony within the mind, body and soul
NURSING - To assist persons to attain a higher degree of harmony by offering caring relationships that
clients can use for personal growth and development
DOROTHEA OREM
To understand this theory one must first understand the concepts of:
Self-Care Is the performance or practice of activities that individual initiate and perform on their own
behalf to maintain life, health and well being
Self-Care Agency - Is the human’s acquired ability or power to engage in self-care. This ability to engage
self care is affected by: basic conditioning factors
Therapeutic Self-Care Demand - Is the TOTALITY of “care measures necessary at specific times or over
a duration of time meeting an individual’s self-care requisites by appropriate methods and related sets of
operations and actions”.
SELF-CARE REQUISITES - The reason for which self-care is undertaken; they express the intended or
desired results.
In the theory of self-care: Orem explains WHAT it means by self-care and list the various factors that
affect its provision.
NURSING AGENCY
Is a complex property or attribute of people educated and trained as nurses that enables them: to
act, to know, and to help others meet their therapeutic self-care demands by exercising or
developing their own self-care agency.
2. PARTLY COMPENSATORY
When both the nurse and patient engage in meeting self-care needs.
3. SUPPORTIVE-EDUCATIVE
Requires assistance in decision making, behavior control and acquisition of knowledge and skills.
The patient is doing all of the self-care
METAPARADIGM
HEALTH - “A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity”.
ENVIRONMENT - Requisites for self-care have their origins in human beings and the environment.
NURSING
- A creative effort of one human being to help another human being.
Consists of three nursing systems:
- Wholly compensatory,
- Partially compensatory, and
- Supportive/educative.
MARTHA ROGERS
Energy Field - Constitute the fundamental unit of both the living and the non-living.
Universe of Open System - Holds that energy fields are infinite, open, and integral with one
another.
Pattern - The nature of the pattern changes continuously, innovatively, and these changes give
identity to the energy field.
Pandimensionality - A nonlinear domain without spatial or temporal attributes.
Principles of Homeodynamics
Principle of Resonancy: - Patterning changes with development from lower to higher frequency,
that is, with varying degrees of intensity.
Principle of Helicy: - Spiral development in continuous, nonrepeating, and innovative patterning.
Principle of Integrality: - The continuous mutual process of person and environment.
PERSON - An open system in continuous process with the open system that is the environment.
HEALTH - She uses the term passive health to symbolize wellness and the absence of disease and
major illness.
DOROTHY JOHNSON
Behavior - Output of intraorganismic structures and processes as they are coordinated and
articulated by and responsive to changes in sessory stimulation
Behavioral System - Encompasses the patterned, repetitive and purposeful ways of behaving.
Equilibrium - Stabilized but more or less transitory resting state in which the individual is in
harmony with himself and his environment.
Tension - State of being stretched or strained and can be viewed as an end product of a
disturbance in equilibrium
Stressor - Internal or external stimuli that produce tension and result in a degree of instability
7 SUBSYSTEMS
INGESTIVE- Has to do with when, how, what, how much, and under what conditions we eat.
SEXUAL - Has a dual function of procreation and gratification. Including but not limited to
courting and mating.
METAPARADIGM
Person - A behavior system with patterned, repetitive, and purposeful ways of behaving that link the
person to the environment.
Health - An elusive dynamic state influenced by biological, psychological and social factors.
Environment - Consists of all factors that are not part of the individual’s behavioral system, but influence
the system.
Nursing - An external force acting to preserve the organization of the patient’s behavior.
Adaptation Model
Roy based her work on Helson’s Adaptation Theory
Is an excellent example of how borrowed knowledge becomes unique to nursing.
Roy synthesizes different (borrowed) theories, such as systems, stress, and adaptation, into a collective
view for explication of a person interacting with the environment.
Major Concepts
System - This is a set of parts connected to function as a whole for some purpose and that does so by
virtue of the interdependence of its parts.
Systems also have inputs, outputs and control and feedback processes
Adaptation Level - This represents the condition of the life processes described on the three levels as in
integrated, compensatory and compromised.
This is a constantly changing point, made up of focal, contextual and residual stimuli which represent the
person’s own standard of the range of stimuli to which one can respond with the ordinary adaptive
responses.
Stimulus - is any factor that provokes a response. Stimuli may arise from either the internal or external
environment.
Focal Stimuli - The internal and external stimulus which confront the individual
Contextual Stimuli - Other stimuli present that contribute to the effect of the focal stimulus
Residual Stimuli - Environmental factors whose effects are unclear in a given situation.
Adaptation Problems - These are broad areas of concern related to adaptation. These describe the
difficulties related to the indicators of positive adaptation. These are seen not as nursing diagnoses, but
as areas of concern for the nurse related to adapting person or group.
Coping Processes - These are innate or acquired ways of interacting with the changing environment
Innate Coping Mechanism - These are genetically determined to the species and are generally viewed
as automatic processes; human do not have to think about them.
Acquired Coping Mechanism - These are developed through strategies such as learning.
Adaptive Responses - These promote integrity in terms of the goals of the human system.
Ineffective Responses - These do not contribute to integrity in terms of the goals of the human system.
Integrated Life Processes - This refers to the adaptation level at which the structures and functions of a
life process are working as a whole to meet human needs.
Perception - The interpretation of a stimulus and the conscious appreciation of it. Links the regulator with
the cognator and connects the adaptive modes.
Physiological-Physical Mode
Self-Concept-Group Identity Mode
Role Function Mode
Interdependence Mode
METAPARADIGM
Environment - stimuli
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BETTY NEUMAN
SYSTEM MODEL
Major Concepts
Lines of Resistance - Series of broken rings surrounding the basic core structure. Represent the
resource factors that help the client defend against a stressor such as the body’s immune system
Normal Line of Defense - The model’s outer solid circle. Represents a stability state for the
individual or system
Flexible Line of Defense - Model’s outer broken ring; Dynamic and can be rapidly altered over a
short time
Wellness - Exists when the parts of the client system interact in harmony with the whole system.
System needs are met.
Illness - Occurs when needs are not satisfied, resulting in a state of instability and energy
depletion.
Stressors - Tension-producing stimuli that have the potential to disrupt system stability.
Intrapersonal forces occurring within the individual, such as conditional responses
Interpersonal forces occurring between one or more individuals, such as role expectations.
Extrapersonal forces occurring outside the individual, such as financial circumstances.
PREVENTION AS INTERVENTION
INTERVENTIONS ARE PURPOSEFUL ACTIONS TO HELP THE CLIENT RETAIN, ATTAIN, AND
MAINTAIN SYSTEM STABILITY
Entropy - A process of energy depletion and disorganization moving the system toward illness or
possible death.
Negentropy - A process of energy conservation that increases organization and complexity, moving the
system toward stability or a higher degree of wellness
Reconstitution - Occurs following treatment of stressor reactions. Represent return of system to stability,
which may be at a higher or lower level of wellness than prior to stressor invasion.
Metaparadigm
Person - A client as a system that may be an individual, family, group, community, or social issue
Health - A continuum of wellness to illness that is dynamic in nature and constantly subject to change
Environment - Internal and external factors that surround or interact with the person/client