Creative products of nurses
-Describe nursing in ways that can be studied, evaluated, and used by
other nurses
-Attempt to explain patterns and relationships found in nursing
phenomena
-Stimulate formal debate, exploration, and research regarding the
nature and process of nursing.
-They are abstract
-frequently focus on if nursing is a job, vocation, and or profession
3.Nurse Theorists: -
Active or former nurses
-Think deeply about nursing phenomenon and record their personal
thoughts and observations
-Develop theories over time
-Influenced by personal and professional experiences
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,-Develop theories as part of creative and evolutionary process
-must comfortable with ambiguity
4.Questions Posed by Nursing Theories: -
What do nurses do?
-What makes nursing unique?
-What is holistic nursing care?
-Do certain nursing actions measurably improve client outcomes?
-What differentiates excellent nursing care from marginal nursing care?
-Is the core of nursing "caring" or technical skill mastery?
-Is nursing an independent profession or auxiliary component of the
medical profes- sion?
-Should nursing encompass the metaphysical or spiritual?
-How should phenomenon outside the five senses be addressed in
nursing?
5.Categories of Theories:
1. Philosophies
2.Grand theories
3.Middle-range theories
6.Philosophies:
Definitions of nursing in general
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,7.Grand theories:
Discussions of broad nursing practice areas
8.Middle-range theories:
Assertions about specific nursing actions, processes, or concepts
-Ex Specific ideas about ways to incorporate cultural awareness into
nursing practice
9.Considerations Related to Nursing Theories: -
A theory may fit more than one category, depending on its
interpretation
-No firm rule exists for how to categorize a theory
-Students must be comfortable with ambiguity in study of theory
10.Productive Learning Approaches:
Listening Evaluating
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, Reading
Adopting another's position to assess
personal fit Formulating an informed opinion
Realizing firm answers do not always apply
11.Value of Nursing Theory: -
Advances the scholarship of nursing
-Serves as a framework for inquiry
-Enables the nursing profession to create its own body of knowledge
-Helps nurses explain and guide the real practice world
12.It may be said that some nursing theories fit into more than one?:
Category
13.A Nursing theory is considered a communication?:
Tool
14.Debate:
Nursing scholars engage in this when they have differences of opinions,
such as those related to categorical determinations or differences in
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