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Concept Analysis Handbook

NR-621 Fall 2023

It's time to begin work on your concept analysis paper. All students are expected to complete a scholarly concept analysis as a final project for this semester. Since this is a major project, its value will be 35% of your final grade.

This is your “Concept Analysis Handbook”. This Handbook provides guidelines and ideas on how to create a scholarly concept analysis. Included is a list of deadline dates that must be met in order to ensure that all requirements are completed on time. Work has been spread out, so you can complete the work at a comfortable pace.

I am looking forward to working with you to make this a valuable learning experience. This experience should offer you the opportunity to learn and understand more about developing your topic of interest and creating a scholarly paper based on your area of interest. The primary goal is to assist in developing your skill in creating a logical, convincing, evidence-based statement about your concept of interest in nursing.

The OWL at Purdue is your primary resource for APA Guidelines ( https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/). You are encouraged to use all of the services available to you through the college including the library and the writing center. You are also encouraged to learn to use the editing and grammar and language tools in the word processing program that you will be using.

CONCEPT ANALYSIS PAPER

Purpose

A concept analysis is an exercise designed to make the student as familiar as possible with a concept. A concept is usually one or two words that convey meaning, understanding or feelings between or among individuals within the same discipline. Some concepts relevant to nursing are health, nursing, managed care, coping and parenting. A concept analysis is the first step in communicating meanings, understanding and feelings.

The underlined words are examples of concepts. Consider the following: mutual help groups for widows and widowers; use of therapeutic touch by Baccalaureate prepared nurses; high school teens understanding of addiction.

Activities and Directions

To begin the process, choose a concept you are interested in, a term you encounter with your work or one you are interested in. Look for the measurable quality in your topic of interest, problem or question.

1. Write down all of the words you can think of which relate to or express your concept.

2. Ask colleagues to share their understanding of your concept.

3. Look up the concept in an unabridged dictionary as well as a medical dictionary and list the definitions you feel most closely describe your feelings or thoughts on the concept.  

4. Search the literature for journal articles and books related to the concept to get a sense of the beliefs and thoughts of others in the discipline regarding the concept.

5. Begin the analysis paper with a short introductory paragraph expressing what the concept is and why it is significant to you and to nursing.  

6. Develop your own definition of the concept. Your definition may be developed from dictionary definitions and literature support including criteria for measurement of your concept in the real world.

Example: Table (concept)-a four-legged platform used to place objects on.

What else can a ‘table’ be? Is it animate or inanimate?

How do you want to define it?

7. Formulate a list of characteristics or criteria that describe the concept in measurable terms so the concept can be measured in the empirical world. Use your definition, your clinical and theoretical experience, research and literature articles and books to make the list complete.

Example: Concept-Table  

Characteristics: a. Four legs of the same length.  

b. A flat or platform surface horizontal to the floor.  

c. Used to place objects on.

8. Develop the Model Case. 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 should be able to reflect “if this is not an example of (concept), then nothing is!”

9. Close with a summary.  

Concept Analysis (Avant and Walker, 1995)

Analysis clarifies, refines or sharpens concepts, statements, or theories. Dissect the whole for better understanding.

Synthesis combines isolated pieces of information that are theoretically unconnected.

Concept defined—

· symbolic statement describing a phenomenon or class of phenomena (Kim)

· building blocks of theory (Hardy)

· complex mental formulation of experience (Chinn & Kramer)

Avant & Walker created a strategy to examine the attributes or characteristics of a concept:

I. The purpose of concept analysis is to distinguish between the defining attributes of a concept and its irrelevant attributes, refine ambiguous concepts in theory, examine information prior to research and theory building activities, prior to tool/scale development, in development of nursing diagnosis.

II. Concept Analysis Process

1. selection of a concept

2. determine the aim or purpose of analysis

3. identify all the uses of the concept (definitions)

4. determine the defining attributes

5. construct cases

6. identify antecedents and consequences

7. define empirical referents

III. Defining characteristics (critical attributes)

1. cluster of attributes most frequently associated with the concept

2. helps differentiate the concept from others similar or related to it

3. characteristics you see over and over again in the literature

Example: Pregnancy

While there are presumptive and probable signs of pregnancy, the positive or diagnostic signs include:

fetal heart tones

uterine soufflé (sound made by the blood within the arteries of the gravid uterus)

funic or funicular soufflé (sound synchronous with the fetal heart beat, probably from the umbilical cord)

observed fetal movement

observation of fetus

IV. Antecedents

Events or incidents that must occur prior to the occurrence of the concept

Determinants of the concept

Things that precede or cause the concept

Risk factors for the concept

Example: ovulation and sexual intercourse are antecedents to pregnancy

V. Consequences

Events or incidents that occur as a result of the occurrence of the concept

Things that follow the concept

Example: birth is the expected consequence of pregnancy

Suggestions for your paper

· Do not overuse person pronouns such as “I”, “me”, or “we”.

· Double-space the entire paper. Do not double-double space when beginning a new heading.

· Use 1” margins top, bottom, left and right. Do not ‘justify’ your margins.

· Use Times or Times New Roman font, size 12.

· The text of the paper should be 5-7 pages in length excluding the cover page, bibliography and appendices. Text exceeding 7 pages will not be read or included in grading.

· An example of formatting a paper can be found in the OWL at Purdue.

· Work at synthesis of information using your own words.

· Documentation is essential throughout the paper.

· Avoid using quotes; paraphrase.

· Be sure to include all required headings and place the appropriate information under each heading.

· An abstract is not required for this paper.

FINDING INFORMATION FOR YOUR Concept analysis

The concept is the main idea driving your analysis. It must be well articulated to reinforce the direction of the concept analysis. You will need background data that will provide a well documented, compelling argument that presents a convincing case for your concept.

The definition includes: a discussion of how you arrived at your operational definition; your resources, origins of the concept, defining attributes, descriptors, modifiers, common usage.

The theory: Choose a Nursing theory to support the use of your chosen concept. Nursing theory is required unless approved by me.

You must have at least 5 original sources. Only peer-reviewed Nursing articles from peer-reviewed Nursing journals are acceptable. In addition use of 1-2 meta-analysis articles is permitted; not all in ternet resources are a ppropriate references for this concept analysis. Articles should be current; not more that 5 years old unless the article is only one of a kind, is a "classic" (original) resource, or is demonstrated to be pertinent to the concept. All references and resources must be included in the bibliography including organizations, dictionaries, or interviews with experts. Certainly, you can download peer-reviewed journal articles via the library/internet, but treat the bibliographic reference as if you acquired the article directly from the original journal. If you have questions, it is best to ask for assistance. You will need to print copies of the Reference Page for your own use; article information is to be shared but it is not necessary to hand articles in. Reference pages are a tool for you to use. This is part of the preparation work that you will be sharing with your work group.

Examples of Nursing Concepts

Processes

Approaches

Role Functions

Professional Responsibilities

Leadership

Change process

Nursing process

Decision making

Research process

Teaching and learning

Collaboration

Physical care

Interpersonal relationships

Empowerment

Reconciliation

Partnership

Presence

Grace

Justice

Service

Agape love

Advocacy

Practitioner

Consultant

Researcher

Teacher

Manager

Peer support

Career development

Economic

Organizational

Legal

Political

Ethical

Quality review

Concepts Related to Family Health Nursing

…families could be conceptualized as (1) the family as context, (2) the family as a whole,

(3) the family as a system, or (4) the family as a component of society.

Advocacy

Autonomy

Behavior

Caregiver

Caregiver burden

Caring

Certainty

Change

Chronic conditions

Collaboration

Community

Compassion

Compassion fatigue

Coping

Crisis

Development

Dignity

Cultural compentence

Culture

Death

Empathy

Empowerment

Environment

Ethics

Family

Family centered care

Father

Good death

Grief

Healing

Health

Health beliefs

Health care systems

Health literacy

Health promotion

Health promotion behaviors

Hope

Humor

Illness

Lateral violence

Locus of control

Mindfullness

Mother

Needs

Peer support

Person

Power

Quality of life

Resilience

Role identification

Self

Self care

Self concept

Self efficacy

Self esteem

Self management

Sense of belonging

Social support

Spirituality

Stress

Sympathy

Transcultural

Transition

Trust

Uncertainty

Violence

Wellness

Wholeness

Choose one of these as the concept for your concept paper or choose one of your own. Please

let me know what word you have chosen by the deadline indicated in the syllabus. These are examples. Do not be limited by these lists. Allow yourself to be creative in your thinking.

The possibilities are endless.

EVALUATING YOUR Concept Analysis Paper

I. Introduction (selection of a concept) (10 points)

A. Aim or Purpose (0-3)______

B. Justify significance to concept to nursing (0-7)______

II. Definition of Concept (20 points)

A. Uses of concept from common usage and nursing use (0-5)______

B. Cite a variety of authoritative sources from evidence balsed

literature related to the nature of the concept (0-5)______

C. Create opertional definition through synthesis of information (0-10)______

III. Defining Attributes (20 points)

A. Attributes are clearly stated (0-5)______

B. Attributes are logical and essential to the concept as defined (0-5)______

C. Attributes are stated in as concrete a form as possible within

the definition (0-5)______

D. Listed attributed are all essential to the concept as defined (0-5)______

IV. Model Case (Empirical referrents) (20 points)

A. Presents a logical example of the concept (0-6)______

B. Identifies antecedents and consequences (0-4)______

C. Includes all listed attributes of the concept; does not include

attributes of other concepts (0-4)______

D. Is consise and to the point as a stated illustration of the concept (0-6)______

V. Empirical relevance (Theoretical Rationale) (10 points)

A. Significance of concept in theory is illustrated (0-5)______

B. Relationship of theory to practice of family health is clearly presented (0-5)______

VI. Bibliography (10 points)  

A. Contains a variety of resources (0-3)_______

B. Resources are authoritative, “classic” resources are evident (0-2)_______

C. Nursing resources are explored (0-2)_______

D. Resources are sufficient in number to justify analysis

(minimum of 5 evidence based resources) (0-3)_______

VII. Layout and Presentation of Pape r (10 points)  

A. Precise APA format (0-5)_______  

B. Grammar, spelling & typing a professional scholarly level (0-5)_______

TOTAL ________

Please use the headings that are BOLD and underlined (except VII). It is NOT OK to leave the headings out. It is important to include information under the headings that illustrate the headings appropriately. Points will be deducted if you do not follow directions.

REFERENCE PAGE

Complete a page for each of the resources that you plan to use. Take notes on key facts and ideas that you want to include in your proposal. Use your own words when summarizing information. Be as complete as possible when filling in the information.

This source is a: _____ Book _____ Magazine _____ Newspaper _____Website _____ Other_____________
Author’s Last Name_________________________ First Name _____________________ Middle Initial _____
Date Published _______________	Title of Publication _________________________________________________
Title of Article (periodicals, encyclopedias, books)__________________________________________________________________
Place Published (books only) _____________________________	Publisher (books only _____________________________	Editor (if applicable) ____________________________
Edition (if applicable) ___________________________	Volume Number (periodicals or encyclopedias) _______________	Page Number(s)_______________

Main Ideas and Important Facts

______________________________________________________________________________________

Worksheet for developing a concept

Name _____________________________________________________ Date ___________________________

Consider your expertise, your interests, your experience, and the resources available to you. Then complete the following worksheet by following the steps outlined below:

Step 1. You probably have an idea of what you want to write about (I want to write about television.). As you think about your topic and discuss it with your group, you should begin to have a more specific idea regarding the topic for your paper. Try writing a question that will communicate your idea.

Example: What are the effects of television violence on children?

Try describing your topic in the form of a question:

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Step 2. Take a look at your question. Try to identify the main concepts related to your topic.

Example: What are the 1 effects of 2 television 3violence on 4 children? Write your question again below and circle the main concepts.

Step 3. There are probably several words to describe each concept.

effects	television	violence	children
consequences	TV	murder	adolescents
impacts	media	guns	youth

Now look for synonyms for the words you circled. Use the dictionary, thesaurus, or web sites to help you discover the words you are looking for. Fill in the chart below:

These words will help you focus in your search for references. This is a work in progress. You may find that you add or delete concepts as you continue your search.

Step 4. Conceptualize your project. To conceptualize your project, complete the following sentences.

A working title for my project is: ____________________________________________________________

The problem this project will address is: _________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The goal of this project is: _________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The objectives I hope to accomplish in order to reach that goal are:

I. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

II. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

III. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

IV. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

The population(s) who will benefit from the research is(are) ________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Step 5: Write a topic definition statement in the space provided below. This statement should include a bit of background information, summarize the purpose of your project, how you plan to accomplish it and the questions you hope the project will answer. No more than three to five clear, concise, simple sentences, please.

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___ Congratulations!! You have accomplished the first steps in writing your concept analysis.

____ A good start. Using the comments I jotted down, make some revisions. We will look at it again. We can’t move forward until this is done.

CONTRACT

Once you have looked over the Concept Analysis Handbook, please read, sign and return this contract to Dr. Ackerman.

I have read the Concept Analysis Handbook and agree to do my best to meet the expectations of the Family Health Nursing class. If I am unable to complete the work as expected I will notify Dr. Ackerman in a timely manner in order to make suitable arrangements. I understand that this is a contract between Dr. Ackerman and myself for the coursework required for this class as well as participation in class and in small groups.

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