Paradigm Debates within Nursing - Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice

Question 1

Some scholars began to question conceptual models as a valid form of theorizing. The frustration resulting from overly formal and rigid approaches to applying many of these models led to a period of what has been called:

Answer 1

model bashing.

Question 2

Many nurse scholars began to recognize that the original theories were better understood as ___ statements than scientific prescriptions.

Answer 2

philosophical

Question 3

One group of theorists, considering some of the original theories to be overly simplistic and insufficiently holistic, began to categorize various nursing models as reflective of two entirely different paradigms of thinking. Considering the majority of nursing models and frameworks to be old-fashioned and outdated, this group of theorists coined the term ___ ___ ___ to describe them, contending that this kind of model reduced an understanding of the human person to fragmented parts out of context.

Answer 3

totality paradigm frameworks

Question 4

They further proposed the term ___ ___ ___ to depict a set of conceptual frameworks they considered to be radically different and preferable by virtue of being both holistic and philosophically sophisticated.

Answer 4

simultaneity paradigm frameworks

Question 5

Some advocates of ___ theories continue to depict the diverse universe of theorizing about nursing as reflecting these two mutually exclusive groupings, positioning one set of conceptual frameworks as philosophically and morally superior to what they understand the other to represent.

Answer 5

simultaneity