The 4 metaparadigms form the discipline of nursing i.e. what nursing is concerned with:
- nursing
- human beings
- health
- environment
The metaparadigms were developed by Fawcett and continue to be the basis of nursing theory and therefore a nursing course.
References and resources:
Fawcett, J. 1984. The metaparadigm of nursing: present status and future refinements. Image – The Journal of Nursing Scholarship 16 (3):84.
Fawcett, J. 1995. Analysis and Evaluation of Conceptual Models of Nursing. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: F A Davis Company
Bender, M. 2018. Re-conceptualizing the nursing metaparadigm: Articulating the philosophical ontology of the nursing discipline that orients inquiry and practice. Nursing Inquiry:e12243
What is the Nursing Metaparadigm? – a useful website on the metaparadigms
