Introduction. The purpose of this assignment is to identify and explore one of Jacqueline Fawcett's (1984) metapardigm concepts of nursing that she identifies as being concepts central to nursing and explore how this is expressed in Judith Christensen's (1990) Nursing Partnership Model. The following discussion seeks to analyse the metaparadigm concept of 'person' according to Christensen (1990). To facilitate this, it is important to discover what is meant by metaparadigm and to further explore what a conceptual model …showed first 75 words of 2628 total…

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