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Health: A Developing Concept in Nursing
Eman Tariq Alslman1, Muayyad M Ahmad1, Manar Ali Bani Hani1
1Faculty of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Purpose:
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the level of maturity of the concept of health in the nursing discipline.
Method:
The four principles of Morse and colleagues were used to evaluate the level of maturity of the health concept-epistemological, logical, pragmatical, and linguistical.
Findings:
This evaluation suggests that the concept of health in nursing is immature, defined inconsistently, and with different instruments.
Conclusion:
Health is a central concept for nursing. Additional concept development and clarification are needed.
Practice Implications:
For the concept of health to be conceptualized, it is important that nurses have consensus regarding the definition of health. The nursing discipline should define health in a manner that is consistent with its philosophical presuppositions. Further, it should be measurable, empirically based, and capture the outcomes that are sensitive to the nursing interventions.
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