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Nursing Metaparadigm Analysis

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Although there has been debate in the past as to whether nursing should be considered a profession, the advent and definition of a nursing metaparadigm has positively advanced the establishment of nursing as a discipline. Moreover, a metaparadigm is seen as the framework for the development of a discipline and without one a consensus could not have been reached in supporting that currently “nursing is a discipline with a metaparadigm.” (Butts, & Rich, 2013, p. 87).
According to Butts & Rich (2013), a discipline’s metaparadigm is regarded as being abstract and practically intangible. However; the concepts comprising the nursing metaparadigm, namely person(s), environment, health, and nursing are relevant and easily applicable to practice. (p.
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