Promotion, Disease Prevention, Homeostasis, Physiological
Regulation, Nursing Models, Florence Nightingale, Peplau
Interpersonal Relations, Orem Self-Care, Roy Adaptation, Watson
Caring, Newman Consciousness, Mishel Uncertainty, Scientific
Method, Quantitative Qualitative Studies, Meta-Analysis Meta-
Synthesis, Integrated Research Review, Levels of Evidence, Ethics IRB,
Vulnerable Populations, Health Disparities, Continuity of Care, Access
to Care, Global Health, WHO Guidelines, Healthy People 2020
Objectives, Patient-Centered Care Assessment and Intervention Exam
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differentiate between science and nursing
-science is a method of bringing together facts and giving them coherence and integrity
nursing theory
-A conceptualization of some aspect of nursing reality communicated for a purpose such as describing or
explaining phenomena
- provide a foundation for developing models or frameworks for nursing practice development
nursing science
the collection of data related to nursing as and its associated components. the purpose of this data
collection is to provide a body of scientific knowledge, which provides the basis for nursing practice
steps in the scientific process
, 1. hypothesis:question that is to be main focus, includes indep. and dep. variables
2. method: what data is to be collected, step-by-step procedure to collect data, easily replicated
3. data collection: collect data
4. results:on conclusion of data collection identify outcome
5. evaluation: examine results, determine relevance in answering hypothesis, identify potential for
future research
criteria for scientific acceptance
1. inclusiveness: does theory include all concepts related to the area of interest
2. consistency: can theory address new entities w/o having its founding assumptions changed?
3. accuracy: does theory: explain retrospective occurrences, maintain its capacity to predict future
outcomes
4. relevance: does theory relate to scientific function from derived? is it reflective of the scientific base?
5. fruitfulness: does theory generate new directions for future research?
6. simplicity: does theory provide road map for replication? simple to follow? make sense?
levels of theory
ranges for broad in scope (grand theory, describe/explain large segments of human experience) to
smaller, more specific in scope. Other levels are middle-range theory and practice theory (smaller in
scope and may refer to a specific pop.)
Florence Nightingale
first nursing theorist