The nurse has an adequate understanding of the four major metaparadigms when making which comment to a colleague? "The four major metaparadigms are
a. "nursing, environment, health, and ill-ness.".
b. "nursing, environment, person, and socie-ty.".
c. "person, environment, health/illness, and nursing.".
d. "person, society, wellness, and health/illness.".
C
The overall theme and main ideas of nursing theory are nursing, person, health/illness, and envi-ronment. When looking at a nursing theory, the nurse looks at how the theorist defines these four metaparadigms. Society is not one of the metaparadigms. Health and illness are not separated but discussed as one metaparadigm. Wellness is part of health/illness metaparadigm.
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