Assignment: Study Theory in Nursing

Assignment: Study Theory in Nursing
Assignment: Study Theory in Nursing
Assignment: Study Theory in Nursing
Week 1 discussion Importance of Theory in Nursing For many students enrolled in NR501, this is an initial course for nursing theory. So, let’s have a debate!!! Is nursing theory important to the nursing profession? If you believe that it is important, explain why it is useful. If you do not believe that it is useful, explain why nursing theory is not necessary to the profession? Be sure to provide an example that demonstrates your opinion and a scholarly reference (not using the required textbook or lesson) which supports your opinion.Nursing theory is defined as “a creative and rigorous structuring of ideas that project a tentative, purposeful, and systematic view of phenomena”. Through systematic inquiry, whether in nursing research or practice, nurses are able to develop knowledge relevant to improving the care of patients. Theory refers to “a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation”
In the early part of nursing’s history, there was little formal nursing knowledge. As nursing education developed, the need to categorize knowledge led to development of nursing theory to help nurses evaluate increasingly complex client care situations.[3]
Nursing theories give a plan for reflection in which to examine a certain direction in where the plan needs to head.[4] As new situations are encountered, this framework provides an arrangement for management, investigation and decision-making. Nursing theories also administer a structure for communicating with other nurses and with other representatives and members of the health care team. Nursing theories assist the development of nursing in formulating beliefs, values and goals. They help to define the different particular contribution of nursing with the care of clients.[5] Nursing theory guides research and practice.Not all theories in nursing are unique nursing theories; many are borrowed or shared with other disciplines.[6] Theories developed by Neuman, Watson, Parse, Orlando and Peplau are considered unique nursing theories. Theories and concepts that originated in related sciences have been borrowed by nurses to explain and explore phenomena specific to nursing