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| abstract ideas or mental images of phenomena or reality |
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| a group of related concepts |
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| a graphic illustration of the relationships between concepts |
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| describes theories that help elucidate how social structures affect a wide variety of human experiences from art to social practices |
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| all the conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding and affecting the development of an organism or person |
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| articulate a broad range of the significant relationships among the concepts of a discipline |
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| a state of being physically fit, mentally stable, and socially comfortable; it encompasses more than the state of being free of disease |
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| originates from Greek: meta, meaning "with," and paradigm, meaning "pattern;" based on four theoretical concepts of nursing: person, environment, health, and nursing |
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| focus on exploration of concepts such as pain, self-esteem, learning, and hardiness |
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| the attributes, characteristics, and actions of the nurse providing care on behalf of, or in conjunction with, the client |
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| a pattern of shared understandings and assumptions about reality and the world |
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| an early effort to define phenomena and serves as the basis for later theoretical formulations |
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| fields of study in which the central focus is performance of professional role (nursing, teaching, management, music). |
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| a system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given phenomenon (eg, theory of gravity) |
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