Question

Appraise ways in which your nursing practice (patient care, education, research, administration, etc.) has been influenced by nursing (or borrowed) theory.

Answer 1

Ans) Theory can also be used to guide the research process by generating and testing phenomena of interest.

- The primary purpose of theory in the profession of nursing is to improve practice by positively influence the health and quality of life of patients.

- The relationship between theory and practice is reciprocal.

- Nursing theory should provide the principles that under in practice and help to generate further nursing knowledge.

- Providing a definition of nursing theory also helps nurses to understand their purpose and role in the healthcare setting.

- Nursing theory development is characterized by nursing's unique perspective:

• A distinct focus of the discipline of nursing.
• In addition, nursing theory development has been related to borrowed or shared theories from or with other disciplines such as anthropology, education, sociology, and psychology.

- Theories developed by Neuman, Watson, Parse, Orlando and Peplau are considered unique nursing theories.

- Examples of application of nursing theories to nursing practice:

Grand theory on stress and adaptation might not yield any interpretable guidelines on practice but if the theory is focused on chronic lingering illness as the stresses on family, the stress theory becomes operational for both research and purposes.

- Example Peplau's Psychodynamic Nursing and Orlando's Nursing theory.