TFN

• theory came from greek word theoria meaning looking at, viewing or beholding
• theory is a creative and rigorous structuring of ideas
• characteristics of theory

  creative

  tentative

  purposeful

  systematic
• creative understands the role of human imagination and vision in theory development
• tentative is open to revision as new evidence emerge
• purposeful suggests a direction in how to view facts and events
• systematic is a step by step process
• phenomena is something that which strikes one as strange,unusual or unaccountable
• phenoma is an aspect of reality that people consciously sense or experience
• nursing theory is body of knowledge that is used to support nursing practice
• nursing metaparadigm came from the greek word meta meaning with and paradigm meaning pattern ( with pattern)
• the core content of nursing discipline is the nursing metaparadigm
• these are pattern used to show relationship among existing theoretical works in nursing. nursing metaparadigm
• four nursing metaparadigm

  person, health, environment, nursing
• Person is the recipients of nursing care and the focus of nursing practice
• health according to WHO is the state of complete physical mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity
• environment represents the persons immediate physical surroundings, the community or the universe and all it contains
• nursing is the profession concerned with the provision of service essential to the maintenance and restoration of health
• philosophy came from the greek word philosophia which means love of wisdom