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

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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.

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Rationale: Grand theories are general concepts that pertain to the overall nature and goals of professional nursing, which are often abstract and do not necessarily lend themselves to empirical testing or problems in specific nurse settings.