IN Chapter 4

The diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems

Direct the activity of nursong profession, including knowledge development, philosophy, theory, educational experience, research, and practice

Contains a set of concepts, definitions, and assumptions or propositions that explain a phenomenon

A pattern of thought that is useful in describing the domain of a discipline

Limited in scope and less abstract. Address a specific phenomenon and reflect practice.  Focus on a specific feild of nursing

The "taken-for-granted" statements that explain the nature of the concept, definitions, purpose, relationships, and structure of theory

The term, description, or label given to describe an idea or responses about an event, a situation, a process, a group of events, or a group of situations

Address nursing interventions for a phenomenon, describe the conditions under which the perscription occurs, and predict the consequences

A conceptualization of some aspect of nursong that describes, explains, predicts, or prescribes nursing care

Differnt meanings for each patient, the clinicial setting, and the healthcare proffession.

An approach to the continuous study and improvement of the process of providing health care services to meet the needs of patients and others and inform health care policy

Serves to inform a system about how it functions.
Outcomes reflect the patient's responses to nursing interventions

The recipient of nursing care, including individual patients, groups, families, and communities

The perspective of a profession.  Provides the subject, central concepts, values and beliefs, phenomena of interest, and central problems of a discipline

The first level of theory development.  They describe phenomena, speculation on why they occur, and describe thsir consequenses

The product and information obtained from the system

Systematic and broad in scope, complex, and therefore require futher specification through research

Explains a systematic view of a phenomenon specific to the disciplin of inquiry

Relate to an object or event that comes from individual perceptual experiences

organize and deliver patient-centered care.

The end product of a system; and in the case of the nursing process it is whether the patient's health status improoves, declines, or remains stable as a result of nursing care.

All possible conditions attecting patients and the settings in which their health care needs occure