THEORETICAL BASIS FOR NURSING MELANIE
LEARNING WORKBOOK 2026 MAJOR NURSING
THEORISTS AND MODELS
◉ what does the domain provide? Answer: the subject, central
concepts, values and beliefs, phenomena of interest, and central
problems of a discipline.
◉ Domain of nursing provides both what? Answer: practical and
theoretical aspects of the discipline
◉ Does the domain change? Answer: no, it is how we think about,
our belief system of nursing. it is constant
◉ Paradigm Answer: Links science, philosophy, and theories
accepted and applied by a discipline
◉ Nursing Paradigm Answer: links person, health,
environment/situation, and nursing- we are anticipating the human
needs, anticipating the "what ifs"
, ◉ Person Answer: it is the individual, but it is also their family (may
or may not be blood related), significant other, community (subsets
of indivduals. Ex: everyone with HIV aids)
◉ Health Answer: different for each person and each clinical setting.
◉ How can health be different for every person? Answer: People
with high blood pressure may have a different view of healthy. They
may think that they are healthy because their medicine is controlling
it. Or someone with asthma may feel unhealthy on a day with high
humidity.
◉ Environment/situation Answer: vitally important because it helps
enable and support the behaviors and health of people. we have to
look at the amount of money that people have too.
◉ Nursing Answer: diagnosis to human response to actual or
potential health problems
◉ Nursing Process Answer: Method of applying the theory or
knowledge
◉ What is the basis for professional nursing? Answer: the
integration of theory and nursing process
LEARNING WORKBOOK 2026 MAJOR NURSING
THEORISTS AND MODELS
◉ what does the domain provide? Answer: the subject, central
concepts, values and beliefs, phenomena of interest, and central
problems of a discipline.
◉ Domain of nursing provides both what? Answer: practical and
theoretical aspects of the discipline
◉ Does the domain change? Answer: no, it is how we think about,
our belief system of nursing. it is constant
◉ Paradigm Answer: Links science, philosophy, and theories
accepted and applied by a discipline
◉ Nursing Paradigm Answer: links person, health,
environment/situation, and nursing- we are anticipating the human
needs, anticipating the "what ifs"
, ◉ Person Answer: it is the individual, but it is also their family (may
or may not be blood related), significant other, community (subsets
of indivduals. Ex: everyone with HIV aids)
◉ Health Answer: different for each person and each clinical setting.
◉ How can health be different for every person? Answer: People
with high blood pressure may have a different view of healthy. They
may think that they are healthy because their medicine is controlling
it. Or someone with asthma may feel unhealthy on a day with high
humidity.
◉ Environment/situation Answer: vitally important because it helps
enable and support the behaviors and health of people. we have to
look at the amount of money that people have too.
◉ Nursing Answer: diagnosis to human response to actual or
potential health problems
◉ Nursing Process Answer: Method of applying the theory or
knowledge
◉ What is the basis for professional nursing? Answer: the
integration of theory and nursing process
