Nursing science

Nursing science is developed through the work of nurse scientists and theorists who describe and explain what nursing is and what nurses do. Important to the development of nursing science are the foundational structures of nursing:

Nursing metatheory and nursing philosophies

Conceptual frameworks and grand theories of nursing, which are more abstract, give the discipline a unique perspective of the metaparadigm concepts and provide a path for more concrete theory development.

Locate a conceptual framework/grand nursing theory, explain how it relates to

Nursing metatheory and nursing philosophies