Reflections on the Science of Unitary Human Beings in Terms of Kuhn's Requirement for Explanatory Power‪.‬

Evolving Paradigms Nursing, as characterized by its developing paradigmatic state, is currently challenged with numerous competing theoretical frameworks, conceptual systems and even sciences. These contemporary theoretical bases for nursing vary greatly in their level of abstraction and in their philosophical foundations. While these competing conceptual systems have been categorized into various paradigms, theorists have rarely divided them along the same line (Chinn & Jacobs, 1987; Fawcett, 1984; Parse, 1987). Parse (1987) proposed that the evolving theoretical bases for nursing could be classified in either the Totality Paradigm or in the Simultaneity Paradigm.