NURSING ARTS MODULE 2
Define nursing theory and discuss how it informs nursing practice - Answer--provide nurses with a
perspective to view client situations, organize data, and analyzing and interpreting information to create
informed nursing practice
-organizes knowledge about nursing to enable nurses to use it in a professional and accountable manner
-purposeful set of assumptions that identify the relationships between concepts
-provide a systematic view for explaining phenomena
The major components of nursing theory,
sometimes called the metaparadigm concepts - Answer-person
environment
health
nursing
Explore the purpose of a conceptual framework - Answer--theoretical structure that links concepts
together for a specific purpose
-can also be described as a theoretical model
-link major nursing concepts and phenomena to direct nursing decisions (e.g., what to assess, how to
make sense of data, what to plan, how to enact a plan, and how to evaluate whether the plan has had
the intended outcome)
-Conceptual frameworks are also often referred to as nursing models or nursing theories
