Assignment: The Metaparadigm Concepts

Assignment: The Metaparadigm Concepts

Assignment: The Metaparadigm Concepts

Week 2 discussion Significance of Nursing Concepts within the Profession This discussion considers the metaparadigm of nursing and the four concepts of the nursing profession—person, environment, health and nursing profession. Select a practice area of the nursing profession (i.e. education, executive, informatics, healthcare policy, and advanced clinical practice) and apply EACH of the four concepts to the selected area. Be sure to apply EACH of the four concepts and include an example that demonstrates the application to the practice area. Don’t forget to support your initial posting with scholarly references.he four metaparadigms of nursing include person, environment, health, and nursing. The metaparadigm of person focuses on the patient who is the recipient of care. … The metaparadigm of health refers to the quality and wellness of the patient. It also includes the access the patient has to health care.

The four phenomena of central interest that define nursing practice (or the key foci of patient care) are identified as nursing, person, health, and environment. These fourphenomena or concepts make up the overall metaparadigm of nursing.A paradigm is a way of looking at natural phenomena that encompasses a set of philosophical assumptions and that guides one’s approach to inquiry. A metapardigm, on the other hand, is a statement or group of statements identifying its relevant phenomena. What’s the type of knowledge gap between nurses and doctors?