1. Metaparadigm: Answer is a world view of discipline (human beings, environment, health& nursing). 2. Philosophies: Answer a statement encompassing onto-logical claims about the phenomena of central interest came to a discipline, epistemic claims about how those phenomena come to be known, and ethical claims about what the discipline value,and noted that the function of a philosophy isto communicate what the members of adiscipline believe to be true in relation to the phenomena of interest to that discipline 3. Conceptual models: Answer a set of relatively abstract and general concepts that ad- dressthe phenomena of central interest to a discipline, the propositionsthat broadlydescribe those concepts, and the propositions that state relatively abstract and general relations between two or more concepts. 4. Theories: Answer one or more relatively concrete and specific concepts that are derivedfrom a conceptual model, the propositions that narrowly describe those concepts, and the propositionsthatstate relatively concrete and specific relations between twoor more concepts 5. Grand theory: Answer abstract, broad theory consists of propositions that are less broadand abstract than a conceptual model, but not as specific and concrete as middle range theory 6. Grand theories: Answer • Leininger's Cultural Care, Diversity and Universality Theoryand Model