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| Classically defined, an abstarct generalization that systematically explains relationships among phenomena |
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| What is descriptive theory? |
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| Thoroughly describes a phenomenon |
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| What are grand theories or macro theories? |
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| Describe large segments of the human experience |
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| What are Middle range theories? |
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| More specific to certain phenomena |
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| Do concepts link to logically ordered, deductive system? |
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| No. They provide context for nursing studies |
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| What is the conceptual underpinning of a study? What does it include? |
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| Framework. Including overall rationale and conceptual definition of key concepts |
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| For Qualitative studies, framework springs form what? |
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| Dinstict research traditions |
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| What are some concepts central to models of nursing? What is an example of a model of nursing used by researchers? |
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| human geings, envrionment, health, an dnursing. Roys Adaptation Model |
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| What are Borrowed Theories? An example? |
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| Non-nursing models. Ex: Bandura's Social Congitive Theory. |
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| What are sharred theories? |
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| When the appropriateness of borrowed theories for nursing inquiry is confirmed |
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| In some qualitative reserach traditions such as phenomenology, research try to suspend what kind of theories? |
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| Substantive theories: previously held |
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| What are Grounded Theories? |
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| Data-driven explanations to account for phenomena under study through inducive process |
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| By qualitative and quantitative studies as an organizing framework, or as an interpretive tool |
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