Reading 13

Question 1

Nursing’s metaparadigm concepts: Disimpacting the Debates

Answer 1

Thorne

Question 2

What is her purpose?

Answer 2

simplify the metaparadigm concepts so that the common nurse can articulate

Question 3

Why simplify the metaparadigm concepts so that the common nurse can articulate?

Answer 3

so nurses can can confidently know/articulate their central definitional qualities AND THEREFORE function as more independent advoates for the health of populations

Question 4

*It was believed that conceptual models and theories could create mechanisms by which nurses could be socialized into… (3)

Answer 4

a language to communicate professional convictions a moral/ethical structure to guide caring actions a means of systematic thinking about nursing and its practice

Question 5

Such conceptual approaches would lead to the development of…

Answer 5

problem solving skills and clinical reasoning at an expert level

Question 6

What happened instead? (2)

Answer 6

not a lot of unity, lots of competition debates became about nation building instead of moving conversation forward

Question 7

Pragmatists have? (2)

Answer 7

abandonned theoretical + now just trying to articulate what nurses do for society developing mid-range theory independent of conceptual models