The purpose of this assignment is to identify and explore one of Jacqueline Fawcett 's (1984) metapardigm concepts of nursing that she identifies as being concepts central to nursing and explore how this is expressed in Judith Christensen 's (1990) Nursing Partnership Model. The following discussion seeks to analyse the metaparadigm concept of 'person ' according to Christensen (1990).
To facilitate this, it is important to discover what is meant by metaparadigm and to further explore what a conceptual model is. This will lead to a better understanding of what Fawcett means by the four metaparadigm concepts of nursing.
Within the development of nursing theories, there is recognition of common themes and concepts. A concept of a subject is related to the way it is viewed and can be a way of classifying a theme when applied to a particular area (Pearson, Vaughan …show more content…
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