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| a person who engages the advice or services of another person who is qualified to provide this service |
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| a group of related concepts |
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| describes theories that help elucidate how social structures affect a wide variety of human experiences from art to social practices |
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| all of the conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding and affecting the development of an organism or person |
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| articulate a broad range of the significant relationships among the concepts of a discipline |
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| the general condition of the body or mind with reference to soundness and vigor; soundness of body or mind; freedom from disease or ailment |
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| originates from the Greek meta, meaning "with," and paradigm, meaning "pattern"; based on four theoretical concepts of nursing: person, enviroment, health, and nursing |
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| focus on exploration of concepts such as pain, self-esteem, learning, and hardiness |
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| the attributes, characteristics, and actions of the nurse providing care on behalf of , or in conjuction with, the client |
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| a pattern of shared understanding and assumptions about reality and the world |
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| an early effort to define phenomena that serves as the basis for later theoretical formulations |
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| filed of study in which the central focus is performance of professional role (nursing, teaching, management, making music) |
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| a system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given phenomenon (e.g., theory of gravity) |
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