Nursing has evidenced a long-standing recognition of concept development for the advancement of nursing theory and practice.
Concept analysis was given a major impetus in the early 1980s when both Chin and Jacobs(1983) and Walker and Avant(1983) published books on nursing theory that offered guidelines for conducting concept analysis. Since then, authors have continued to publish both guidelines for concept analysis and result of analyses.
Many Patient’s experience uncertainty it leads to internal stress and anxiety.
The purpose of this study was to develop nursing diagnosis to define the precise attributes of “uncertainty” which could be a basis for nursing intervention.
To explore the explicit or implicit meaning of uncertainty, existing literatures were reviewed. Dictionary definitions were also added.
The process of concept analysis was illustrated and documented using the analytical approach described by Walker and Avant(1983).
Attributers of uncertainty are defined as :
1. Doubt : doubtful, a distrust, be half in doubt, uncertainty etc.
2. Anxiety: unstable state, a feeling of anxiety, restless, instability.
3. unpredictable: We don’t have a firm belief, and cannot forecast the future.
4. Decrease of ability in decision making: We cannot decide exactly a condition and have difficulties in making decision.
5. Decrease of ability in situation coping: We have difficulties in perceiving the situations and cannot cope proper actions.
From the above result, they can conclude that uncertainty may be the conditions of doubt and anxiety at unpredictable state, the conditions of decrease of ability in decision making and ability in dealing with situation. They lead to internal stress and anxiety, therefore controlling the uncertainty of patient are necessary to decrease of uncertainty.
This information may be used as a foundation for developing nursing interventions to decrease perceived uncertainty.
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