Study Books Used in Class:
Strategies for theory construction in nursing. (4th ed.)
Walker L. Walker L. O. & Avant K.
New Jersey: Prentice Hall (2004)
Description:
Think of your nursing setting whether you work in a doctors office clinic hospital community setting. Choose a nursing concept and write a concept paper using the guidelines from Avant & Walker or website.. See also www2.kumc.edu/instructional education/.. It is recommended that you use the topics as your subheadings. Examples of nursing concepts are hope caring culture adaptation etc. If there are two or three words in your concept you must define each word.
Introduction of the concept-tell me which concept you choose & why.
Review of literature-Go to the literature and from the literature I do not mean just the dictionary. Tell me how these authors have defined the concept in their writings. Search enough literature so that you can find some similarities. The similarities will be defining attributes (words that they all use when defining the concept). Choose a few and make your own definition of the concept.Antecedents-things that must happen be present before the concept can take place
Consequences-things that may happen if the concept is not present.
Example cases- 3 Model (all of the attributes of the concept) must do & 2 others
Contrary (none of the attributes of the concept)
Related (some of the attributes of the concept)
Invented (make this up mythology)
Empirical Referents- How do we know that this is indeed the concept. List instruments that exist to measure the concept. Cite research studies that use the concept. Give examples of how the concept is used in the Literature.