Chapter 6: Theoretical Issues in Nursing in the Twenty-First Century: Nursing Theorizing as Everyday

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Rationale: During wartime, the social status of nurses was elevated and their contributions to key processes and decisions were highly regarded.

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Rationale: Nursing theory and knowledge development in the early 1970s was, in large part, a response to the need for nursing to conceptualize the uniqueness of nursing practice knowledge and gain credibility as a professional discipline.

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Rationale: A conceptual framework is a set of concepts, definitions, and models derived from logical thinking and inductive reasoning.

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Rationale: The metaparadigm provides central concepts from which to build our theory and nursing knowledge including nursing, persons, environment, and health.

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Rationale: Rosemarie Parse's theory of human becoming is a mid-range theory used to describe, explain, or predict phenomenon in nursing.