Nursing Theories Nursing Practice 3rd Edition Parker – Test Bank
Chapter 1
Key Terms
Nursing
Nursing knowledge Professional practice Paradigm
Framework
Philosophy
Grand theory
Nursing Practice Theory Empirical indicators Caring
Persons
Syntactical structure Specialized language Values and beliefs Nursing process
Community of Scholars Discipline
Theory
Worldviews Metaparadigm Conceptual model Middle-range theory Clinical scholarship Domain
Environment
Health
Conceptual structure Tradition Practice-level theory
Chapter 1
Objectives
On completion of this chapter, students will be able to:
- Compare and contrast definitions of nursing.
- Describe the usefulness of theory to everyday practice.
- Identify four phenomena of interest to nursing.
- Name the primary purpose of nursing theory.
- Describe characteristics of nursing as a discipline.
- Discuss the importance of conceptualizing nursing as a discipline of knowledge.
- Compare and contrast definitions of nursing theory.
