NURS 841 THEORY AND CONCEPTUALIZATION IN NURSING SCIENCE
Focuses on the nature of theory in scientific disciplines, nursing theory within the context of the philosophy of science and the evolution of nursing science and the application of conceptualization to the process and conduct of nursing research. Interrelationships between components, context and structure of modes of systematic inquiry, the conceptual basis of theory development and a variety of mid-range theories and their paradigms are analyzed. Contribution of these modes, concepts and theories (practice, mid-range, grand) to knowledge generation and theory development in nursing is critically evaluated in relation to nursing science and applied to student?s area of interest.
Offered
202009