For a more specific exercise, try locating the opposites of the definitions given. For instance, given a definition for “health”, you should be able to invert the terms to get a definition for “illness”.
This sounds like the easiest and most fruitful of the exercises you offered. I don’t really have a ‘naive model’–I’ve never trusted my intuitions particularly, and they’re mostly silent on nursing-related stuff, probably because as of yet I have hardly any clinical experience.
For a third, try listing some things that you absolutely wouldn’t expect a sane Theory to lead you to do (say, tell the poor guy to “stop whining and get a job”), and based on the general idea that theories should add up to normality, ask how Roy’s Adaptation Theory specifically prohibits you from doing them. (If it doesn’t, that’s where it’s broken.)
Sounds very useful, but also exhausting on the brain. I’ll see how brain-exhausted I am after studying for my upcoming exams, and how many pages I can get out of the other suggestions. (I may not be genuinely curious enough about this to keep working on it after the essay is handed in.) Thanks, though!
This sounds like the easiest and most fruitful of the exercises you offered. I don’t really have a ‘naive model’–I’ve never trusted my intuitions particularly, and they’re mostly silent on nursing-related stuff, probably because as of yet I have hardly any clinical experience.
Sounds very useful, but also exhausting on the brain. I’ll see how brain-exhausted I am after studying for my upcoming exams, and how many pages I can get out of the other suggestions. (I may not be genuinely curious enough about this to keep working on it after the essay is handed in.) Thanks, though!