Unit 2-Part II Concept Analysis Paper: Concept Uses, Defining Attributes, and Model Case

This assignment is part two of four parts (Concept Analysis Paper due in Week 5).

The assignment for this week involves identifying how the concept is used in nursing practice, its defining attributes (characteristics), and an example of a model case that illustrates the fundamental components of the concept.

For this assignment, you are to prepare an APA formatted 3-5 page paper (not including the Title Page and Reference Page) that addresses the following:

• No abstract is required.
• Use the following as headings in the body of the paper: Concept Uses, Defining Attributes, and Model Case.
• Paper content includes scholarly support from the literature. 
• Omit Part Unit-I Part I in your submission.

A. Concept Uses

1. Select a grand or mid-range nursing theory that supports the concept selected for your Week 1 paper. 

2. Explain how/why that theory supports the development of the concept you selected.

3. Discuss its usefulness in nursing practice, research, education, and administration.

4. Select and discuss a research study that uses a grand nursing theory in a nursing practice study.

5. Discuss its application to evaluating safe, effective, quality care practices.

B. Defining Attributes

1. Determine the defining attributes of your chosen concept and the importance of determining the defining attributes.  For example, a key attribute of the pregnancy concept is a fetal heartbeat. 

Each attribute is:

• clearly and succinctly stated.      
• logically an essential element of the concept as defined                                                             
• measurable.                                   
• comprised as a part of the whole concept as defined                                                           

C. Model Case

1. Construct a Model Case that shares all of the key attributes of the concept and all the defining criteria. The Model Case is a brief situational description validating the concept, including all of the characteristics you have listed which describe or make up the concept. The Model Case reflects the ultimate example of the concept.  For instance, within the concept of body image, a model case might deal with someone who has experienced full-body third-degree burns.