Exam 6: Theoretical Issues in Nursing

Which term was used in early conceptual frameworks to describe arrival at a conclusion based on the analysis and interpretation of health information?

Which theorist attempted to depict an irreducible abstract conceptualization of "unitary human beings"?

Whose early nursing leadership influenced other model builders to explicitly work with General Systems Theory in order to create models in which all aspects of the human person were understood to be in constant interaction?

Which following method was used by early nurses to develop the capacity for nursing reasoning?

Which reason is cited for why nurses were inhibited rather than supported in their systematic and critical thinking while implementing nursing theories?

Which of the following was created in recognition in the 1970s of the importance of a precise language and taxonomy in nursing?

Which one of the following reflects an alternative paradigmatic position to general systems theory?

A university in which following province created the first Canadian nursing model?

Which following prominent nursing researcher was one of only two nurse recipients of the prestigious scientist award of the National Health Research and Development Program over a 25-year period?

The inclusion of which metaparadigm concept as a fundamental concept for nursing created the platform upon which to build the socially relevant thought characteristic of modern nursing scholarship?

Which following term was used to describe the first nursing clinical decision-making structure?

Which following person is credited with formalizing the knowledge and practice of nursing into a professional context?

What name was given to the initial conceptual frameworks that were created by early nursing scholars?

During which time period was the social status of nurses elevated and their contributions to key processes and decisions highly regarded?

As scientists across disciplines struggled with the implications of new ways of philosophizing about science, nurse leaders began to conceptualize nursing as a science in addition to being which of the following?