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Philosophy is defined as the rational study of the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. It involves thinking about subjects like ethics, thought, existence, time, meaning, and value using four processes: responsiveness, reflection, reason, and re-evaluation. Concepts are the building blocks of theories and can describe phenomena symbolically. They can be abstract or concrete. Concepts come from naturalistic observations, research, or theories, and can be variable or non-variable. Nursing theory development began with Florence Nightingale and emphasizes major concepts like person, health, nursing, and environment. Theories operate at different levels from grand theories to middle-range to practice-level theories.

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TFN Philosophy

Philosophy is defined as the rational study of the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. It involves thinking about subjects like ethics, thought, existence, time, meaning, and value using four processes: responsiveness, reflection, reason, and re-evaluation. Concepts are the building blocks of theories and can describe phenomena symbolically. They can be abstract or concrete. Concepts come from naturalistic observations, research, or theories, and can be variable or non-variable. Nursing theory development began with Florence Nightingale and emphasizes major concepts like person, health, nursing, and environment. Theories operate at different levels from grand theories to middle-range to practice-level theories.

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Philosophy

 From Greek, by way of Latin, philosophia, “love of wisdom”


 The rational, abstract, and methodical consideration of reality as a
whole or fundamental dimensions of human existence and
experience.
 The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and
existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline
 Is a way of thinking about certain subjects such as ethics, thought,
existence, time, meaning, and value.
 That ‘way of thinking’ involves 4Rs
 Responsiveness
 Reflection
 Reason
 Re-evaluation

Philosophers
Plato – founders of western religion and spiritually
Aristotle – “Father of western philosophy”

What is a Concept?
 Ideas or thoughts
 Building blocks of theories
 Symbolic statement describing a phenomenon or group of
phenomena
 Formulated in words to be able to communicate meanings about
realities in the world or give meaning to phenomena that can be
directly seen
 Two types of Concept:
 Abstract – mentally constructed independent of a specific
time or place (hope, love, and faith)
 Concrete – are directly experienced and relate to a particular
time (air, weight, and temperature)

Concepts can be formulated:


 A word – grief, empathy, pain
 Two words – patient’s satisfaction
 Phrase –

Concepts can also be variable or non-variable:


Variable
 Continuous
 Concepts that describe phenomena according to some dimensions,
permits, classification, or graduation of phenomena
Non-variable
 Discrete
 Concepts that identifies categories or classes of phenomena. For
example, gender, ethnic background, religion, and marital status.
Sources of Concepts:
Naturalistic
 Seen in nature or in nursing practice such as body weight,
thermoregulation, hematologic complications, depression
Researched Based Concepts
 are results of conceptual development
Theory
 Systematic explanation of an event in which constructs and
concepts are identified and relationships are proposed and
predictions are made

Historical Perspective of Theory Development


 Nursing theory has been a prevalent theme in nursing literature for
the past 30 year
 It was F.N. who envisioned nurses as a body of educated nurse
 Her vision-establishment of home of nursing at ST. Thomas
hospital in London Start of Modern Nursing
 20th Century nursing began with strong emphasis on practice

Examples of Theories:
Non-Nursing
 Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud – ID, Ego, Superego)
 ID – original system of personality that matrix in which ego and
superego differentiate
 Ego – follow reality principle, has control behavior, and control
over cognitive functions
 Superego – strive for perfection and focuses on moral issues
(“what is right and what is wrong”)
Nursing
Major Concepts: Person, Health, Nursing, Environment + Key Concepts
= Nursing Theory

Levels of Nursing Theory

NURSING METAPARADIGM

GRAND THEORIES

MIDDLE-RANGE THEORIES

PRACTICE LEVEL
THEORIES

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