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Organized system of accepted knowledge composed of concepts, propositions, definitions, and assumptions intended to explain a set of facts, events, or phenomena.

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THEORY

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Theory is a logically interrelated sets of confirmed hypotheses

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THEORY ACCORDING TO McKAY (1969)

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Coherent set of hypothetical, conceptual, and pragmatic principles forming a general frame of reference for a field of inquiry.

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THEORY ACCORDING TO ELLIS (1968)

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Used to describe a phenomenon or group of phenomena.

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CONCEPT

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Gives meaning to a phenomena that can directly or indirectly be seen, heard, smell, tasted.

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CONCEPT

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Ideas, generalization formed in the mind.

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CONCEPT

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Indirectly observed, intangible

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ABSTRACT CONCEPT

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Directly observed, tangible

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CONCRETE CONCEPT

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Group of related ideas, statements, or concepts and conveys a mental image of a phenomenon.

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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

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Representation of an idea or body of knowledge based on the own understanding or perception of a person or researcher on a certain topic, phenomena, or theory.

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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

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Highly established set of concepts that are testable.

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THEORETICAL MODEL/FRAMEWORK

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Collection of interrelated concepts, like a theory

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THEORETICAL MODEL/FRAMEWORK

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Theoretical structure of assumptions, principles, and rules that holds together the ideas comprising a broad concept.

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THEORETICAL MODEL/FRAMEWORK

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The core, the care, the cure

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THEORETICAL MODEL/FRAMEWORK

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The person, social sciences therapeutic use of self.

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THE CORE

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The body, natural and biological sciences intimate care

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THE CARE

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The disease, Pathological and therapeutic sciences seeing the patient and family through the medical care

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THE CURE

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Relationship between two concepts

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PROPOSITION

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Global general framework made up of assumptions about aspect of the discipline held by members to be essential in the development of a discipline.

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PARADIGM

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Paradigm is understanding and assumption about reality

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KOZIER and ERBS

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Person or Client, Environment, Health, and Nursing

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METAPARADIGM FOR NURSING

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Specifies the main concept that encompass the subject matter and the scope of a discipline

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METAPARADIGM ACCORDING TO TOMEY and ALLIGOOD (2010)

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Recipient of nursing care

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PERSON OR CLIENT

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The internal and external surrounding that affect the client

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ENVIRONMENT

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Degree of wellness or wellbeing that a client experiences.
HEALTH
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The attribute, characteristics, and action of the nurse providing on behalf of or in conjunction with the client.
NURSING
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A dynamic discipline, an art and science of caring for individuals, families, or groups, and communities geared toward promotion and restoration of health, prevention of illness, alleviation of sufferings, and assisting clients to face death with dignity and peace.
NURSING
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Focused on assisting the client as she or he responds to health-illness situation, utilizing the nursing process and guided by ethico-legal moral principles.
NURSING
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The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery
NURSING ACCORDING TO FLORENCE NIGHTANGLE
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Assist clients in the performance of activities contributing to health, its recovery, or peaceful death that clients will perform unaided, if they had the necessary will, strength, or knowledge.
NURSING ACCORDING TO HENDERSON
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Healthcare focused on the individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from conception to death.
NURSING DEFINED BY KOZIER
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A profession concerned with diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual and potential health problems.
NURSING DEFINED BY ANA (1980)
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The protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, an advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
NURSING DEFINED BY ANA (2003)
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Patient and Clients
RECIPIENTS OF NURSING
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A person who is waiting for or undergoing medical treatment
PATIENTS
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Represents the receiver of healthcare as a collaborator in the care.
CLIENTS
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Promoting health and wellness, preventing illness, restoring health, caring for the dying
SCOPE OF NURSING
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example is having healthy lifestyle
PROMOTING HEALTH AND WELLNESS
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Immunization, prenatal, prevention of STD
PREVENTING ILNESS
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Focuses on the ill client, extends from early detection of disease through helping the client during the recovery period.
RESTORING HEALTH
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Comforting and caring for people of all ages who are dying.
CARING FOR THE DYING
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Hospitals, client's home, community agency, ambulatory clinics, long-term care facilities, HMOs and nursing practice centers.,
SETTINGS FOR NURSING
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Clinical setting, disease process, interventions, client's behavior
PHENOMENON IN NURSING
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Health care centers
CLINICAL SETTING
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Stomach ulcer
DISEASE PROCESS
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Care of client in pain
INTERVENTIONS
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Guarding behavior at pain sites
CLIENT'S BEHAVIOR
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Job or career that requires widely varying levels of training or education, varying levels if skills, and widely variable defined knowledge bases
OCCUPATION ACCORDING TO McEWEN ET.AL.
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Requires prolonged, specialized training to acquire a body of knowledge pertinent to the role to be performed.
PROFESSION
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Orientation of an individual toward service either to a community or to an organization (altruism)
PROFESSION
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Learned vocation or occupation that has a status of superiority and precedence within a division of work.
PROFESSION
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Occupation that requires extensive education or a calling that requires special knowledge, skill, and preparation
PROFESSION ACCORDING TO KOZIER
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Includes on going research, code of ethics, autonomy, registration/professional organization.
PROFESSION

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