1.

The significance of nursing as a discipline is that it is a branch of education, a department of

learning, or a topic of knowledge that is exclusive to academics.
2. The significance of nursing as a profession is due to the fact that it establishes a basis of
understanding for care concepts, allowing professionals to better explain what they intend to
accomplish for patients and the rationale for their activities. It is significant because it can assist
nurses in articulating the evidence that supports their techniques of practice.
3. Nurses may and should play a critical role in health care, particularly now when we are in the
midst of a pandemic. The nursing profession has the potential to affect far-reaching changes in
the health-care system due to its size and adaptability.
a. Nursing is a career in the health-care industry. Nurses serve as patient educators, describing
procedures and treatments to patients. Nurses assist patients and their families in coping with
illness and dealing with it. They've always been at the vanguard of health-care and public-
health change.
b. I firmly believe that nursing is a profession in which you never stop learning. I wanted to do
something tough and exciting in my job that makes a daily difference in people's lives. My
ambition is to work as a nurse. I will be able to practice this profession anywhere in the world
as a nurse. Every day, I may work with many people, not just patients, but also other people.
c. Florence Nightingale, the greatest person in nursing history, helped to define nursing practice
by saying that nurses did not need to know everything about the disease process like doctors
did. Theoretical notions in Nightingale's work are short, straightforward, and simple to
comprehend. It is still relevant in today's practice. It allows nurses to work more efficiently by
allowing them to use their own intuition when it comes to patient care and environment
change.
d. There are different nursing knowledge that nurses use to practice namely: grand theories,
middle-range theories, practice theories, descriptive theories, prescriptive theories, theory-
based nursing practice, and shared theories. Grand theories give a basic framework and nursing
ideals rather than guiding specific nursing interventions. They are complicated, large in scope
and they need additional research to clarify. They are also abstract. Middle-range theories
contribute to the discipline's substantive knowledge by explaining and expanding on specific
phenomena associated to the caring–healing process. Practice theories are situation-specific
theories that focus on a specific patient population at a specific time and are confined in scope.
Nursing theories at the practice level give frameworks for nursing actions and suggest
outcomes or effects of nursing care. Descriptive theories describe phenomena, speculate on
why they occur, and describe their consequences. Prescriptive theories are the norms that can
be used to assure a patient's safety and well-being. In theory-based nursing practice, the nurse
can plan and conduct care more consciously and proactively with a theoretical perspective.
Lastly, in shared theories, these are the theories that one discipline borrows from another
discipline; before, nursing's major foundation.
e. Nursing as a discipline is a branch of education, a department of learning, or a subject of
study that is only available to academics. While nursing as a profession builds a foundation of
understanding for care principles, it also allows practitioners to better articulate what they
hope to achieve for patients and the rationale for their actions. These are important because
they provide a foundation for collecting an accurate and valid data, theories have become
essential for effective decision making and implementation.
1. There are five structural level of nursing knowledge namely: Metaparadigm, Philosophy,
Conceptual models, theory, and middle-range theory. Metaparadigm is a collection of beliefs or
ideas that define how a discipline should work. These ideas for a nursing discipline are made up
of four key concepts: the patient as a whole, the patient's health and well-being, the patient's
surroundings, and nursing obligations. Philosophy discusses a nurse's education, practice, and
patient care ethics from the perspective of a nurse. Conceptual models is characterized as a
collection of relatively abstract and general concepts, as well as assertions about those
concepts, that address the nursing metaparadigm's beliefs. Theory provides the nursing
students since it benefits them with a middle-ground perspective and more specific generalist
practice areas. Lastly, Middle-range theory is significant for nursing students because it gives
them a middle reality perspective and more particular generalist practice areas.
2. Person, environment, health, and nursing are the four metaparadigms of nursing. Person is
the one who receives a nursing care. The patient's metaparadigm environment encompasses
both internal and exterior elements. Health is a dynamic process that combines wellbeing and
sickness and is determined by the client's perception throughout his or her life. Lastly, Nursing
is both an academic study and a field of practice. It is the science and art of delivering effective
health care that is governed by individual liberty, decision, and accountability.